Thanks for putting that info together! I'm not sure exactly what order things need to happen in, but Jay (JayF) is working on the infra bits of getting a repository and CI, and Jim (jroll) is getting the Pecan+WSME part done. Hopefully we'll have it all ready by Monday.
On Fri, Mar 7, 2014 at 12:53 PM, Vladimir Kozhukalov < vkozhuka...@mirantis.com> wrote: > Russell, > > Great to hear you are going to move towards Pecan+WSME. Yesterday I had a > look at teeth projects. Next few days I am going to start contributing. > First of all, I think, we need to arrange all that stuff about pluggable > architecture. I've created a wiki page about Ironic python agent > https://wiki.openstack.org/wiki/Ironic-python-agent. > > And the question about contributing. Have you managed to send pull request > to openstack-infra in order to move this project into > github.com/stackforge? Or we are supposed to arrange everything (werkzeug > -> Pecan/WSME, architectural questions) before we move this agent to > stackforge? > > > > > > Vladimir Kozhukalov > > > On Fri, Mar 7, 2014 at 8:53 PM, Russell Haering > <russellhaer...@gmail.com>wrote: > >> Vladmir, >> >> Hey, I'm on the team working on this agent, let me offer a little >> history. We were working on a system of our own for managing bare metal >> gear which we were calling "Teeth". The project was mostly composed of: >> >> 1. teeth-agent: an on-host provisioning agent >> 2. teeth-overlord: a centralized automation mechanism >> >> Plus a few other libraries (including teeth-rest, which contains some >> common code we factored out of the agent/overlord). >> >> A few weeks back we decided to shift our focus to using Ironic. At this >> point we have effectively abandoned teeth-overlord, and are instead >> focusing on upstream Ironic development, continued agent development and >> building an Ironic driver capable of talking to our agent. >> >> Over the last few days we've been removing non-OS-approved dependencies >> from our agent: I think teeth-rest (and werkzeug, which it depends on) will >> be the last to go when we replace it with Pecan+WSME sometime in the next >> few days. >> >> Thanks, >> Russell >> >> >> On Fri, Mar 7, 2014 at 8:26 AM, Vladimir Kozhukalov < >> vkozhuka...@mirantis.com> wrote: >> >>> As far as I understand, there are 4 projects which are connected with >>> this topic. Another two projects which were not mentioned by Devananda are >>> https://github.com/rackerlabs/teeth-rest >>> https://github.com/rackerlabs/teeth-overlord >>> >>> Vladimir Kozhukalov >>> >>> >>> On Fri, Mar 7, 2014 at 4:41 AM, Devananda van der Veen < >>> devananda....@gmail.com> wrote: >>> >>>> All, >>>> >>>> The Ironic team has been discussing the need for a "deploy agent" since >>>> well before the last summit -- we even laid out a few blueprints along >>>> those lines. That work was deferred and we have been using the same deploy >>>> ramdisk that nova-baremetal used, and we will continue to use that ramdisk >>>> for the PXE driver in the Icehouse release. >>>> >>>> That being the case, at the sprint this week, a team from Rackspace >>>> shared work they have been doing to create a more featureful hardware agent >>>> and an Ironic driver which utilizes that agent. Early drafts of that work >>>> can be found here: >>>> >>>> https://github.com/rackerlabs/teeth-agent >>>> https://github.com/rackerlabs/ironic-teeth-driver >>>> >>>> I've updated the original blueprint and assigned it to Josh. For >>>> reference: >>>> >>>> https://blueprints.launchpad.net/ironic/+spec/utility-ramdisk >>>> >>>> I believe this agent falls within the scope of the baremetal >>>> provisioning program, and welcome their contributions and collaboration on >>>> this. To that effect, I have suggested that the code be moved to a new >>>> OpenStack project named "openstack/ironic-python-agent". This would follow >>>> an independent release cycle, and reuse some components of tripleo >>>> (os-*-config). To keep the collaborative momentup up, I would like this >>>> work to be done now (after all, it's not part of the Ironic repo or >>>> release). The new driver which will interface with that agent will need to >>>> stay on github -- or in a gerrit feature branch -- until Juno opens, at >>>> which point it should be proposed to Ironic. >>>> >>>> The agent architecture we discussed is roughly: >>>> - a pluggable JSON transport layer by which the Ironic driver will pass >>>> information to the ramdisk. Their initial implementation is a REST API. >>>> - a collection of hardware-specific utilities (python modules, bash >>>> scripts, what ever) which take JSON as input and perform specific actions >>>> (whether gathering data about the hardware or applying changes to it). >>>> - and an agent which routes the incoming JSON to the appropriate >>>> utility, and routes the response back via the transport layer. >>>> >>>> >>>> -Devananda >>>> >>>> _______________________________________________ >>>> OpenStack-dev mailing list >>>> OpenStack-dev@lists.openstack.org >>>> http://lists.openstack.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/openstack-dev >>>> >>>> >>> >>> _______________________________________________ >>> OpenStack-dev mailing list >>> OpenStack-dev@lists.openstack.org >>> http://lists.openstack.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/openstack-dev >>> >>> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> OpenStack-dev mailing list >> OpenStack-dev@lists.openstack.org >> http://lists.openstack.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/openstack-dev >> >> > > _______________________________________________ > OpenStack-dev mailing list > OpenStack-dev@lists.openstack.org > http://lists.openstack.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/openstack-dev > >
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