Deploying OpenStack has been considered the wild west frontier for some time, but then along came OpenStack Ansible which has made it simple for operators to deploy production OpenStack, making use of Ansible and lxc containers. Not content with the basic set of OpenStack components, a small band of developers set out with a plan to add Ironic to the list of supported services, resulting in the development of the os_ironic role.
Join us as we talk about our journey to add baremetal provisioning to the OpenStack Ansible project. We will discuss how we made it easy to deploy and support OpenStack across not just containers, but also baremetal (introducing yet another buzzword)! Come and hear about the challenges we faced, how they were overcome, and what we learnt in the process. We’ll also gaze into the future and talk about what the next steps might be, and how you can help us get there.
This talk will be useful to those wanting to:
- Add support for additional OpenStack projects to OpenStack Ansible.
- Deploy to baremetal machines using Ansible.
- Use OpenStack Ansible as the mechanism to enjoy all the benefits of Ironic.
- Deploy OpenStack Ironic.