The challenge of managing physical hardware can be simplified using Ironic bare-metal provisioning, decreasing workload deployment time. In this session, we will address the need for self-service and its benefits over submitting tickets. We’ll also discuss typical data center/infrastructure integration use cases.
We discuss:
- What Ironic is and how it works
- Benefits of using Ironic compared to other provisioning tools
- Challenges and "missing parts" you can encounter using Ironic in production environments, such as: rack-level awareness for networking (i.e., availability zones for networks); DNS integration; hardware RAID configuration (e.g., extended Ironic Python Agent functionality); server name generation
- Operational issues such as data center networking to accommodate Ironic
Ironic is perceived by many as being immature, since there is a lack of notable experience in using Ironic in production, especially at scale but we’ll share real world large-scale production experience.
In this session, attendees will learn about:
- What Ironic is and how it works
- Benefits of using Ironic compared to other provisioning tools, such as:
- Standardized OpenStack REST API
- Image based provisioning
- RBAC separations on project/tenant basis
- VM provisioning
- Challenges and "missing parts" you can encounter using Ironic in production environments, such as:
- Rack-level awareness for networking (i.e., availability zones for networks)
- DNS integration
- Hardware RAID configuration (e.g., extended Ironic Python Agent (IPA) functionality)
- Server name generation
- Operational issues such as data center networking to accommodate Ironic
Registration Opening Soon
Registration will open for you to purchase passes for the OpenStack Summit very soon!
We're excited to see you there!
