Austin
April 25-29, 2016

Event Details

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The Omniscient Cloud: Bare Metal Inspection Status Update

Ironic Inspector was introduced during the Kilo cycle (under the name of ironic-discoverd) to allow inspection of hardware properties required for Ironic. Since then, we’ve found even more uses for deep inspection of hardware served by Ironic.

This session gives a quick introduction into Ironic Inspector, its role in bare metal provisioning and Ironic Inspector's pluggable architecture, and how it provides smarter processing of the inspection data.

You’ll also learn about extended features introduced in the Liberty and Kilo cycles, such as inspection rules, support for Ironic Python Agent, and plug-in hooks for interaction with CMDBs. The session will conclude with future plans, including node auto-discovery and high-availability.


What can I expect to learn?

The attendees will learn how to use Ironic Inspector for basic inspection and how it integrates with the bare metal service (Ironic). They will also learn which advanced features Ironic Inspector can offer for more detailed inspection and how to use them. FInally, they will learn about our future plans and how to get involved.

Monday, April 25, 3:40pm-4:20pm (8:40pm - 9:20pm UTC)
Difficulty Level: Intermediate
Red Hat, Senior Principal Software Engineer
I'm a technical lead of the team responsible for Metal3 (and thus also co-responsible for Ironic) at Red Hat. I've been an Ironic developer (and core reviewer) since 2014. In addition to writing Python and Go for living, I'm also interested in Rust and I'm the maintainer of the rust-openstack SDK project. In my leisure time I play guitar, hike and go bouldering. FULL PROFILE