On Tue, Oct 2, 2018 at 8:59 AM Mark Goddard <m...@stackhpc.com> wrote:
> Hi, > > In the most recent Ironic meeting we discussed [1] tenks, and the > possibility of adding the project under Ironic governance. We agreed to > move the discussion to the mailing list. I'll introduce the project here > and give everyone a chance to ask questions. If things appear to move in > the right direction, I'll propose a vote for inclusion under Ironic's > governance. > > Tenks is a project for managing 'virtual bare metal clusters'. It aims to > be a drop-in replacement for the various scripts and templates that exist > in the Ironic devstack plugin for creating VMs to act as bare metal nodes > in development and test environments. Similar code exists in Bifrost and > TripleO, and probably other places too. By focusing on one project, we can > ensure that it works well, and provides all the features necessary as > support for bare metal in the cloud evolves. > > That's tenks the concept. Tenks in reality today is a working version 1.0, > written in Ansible, built by Will Miller (w-miller) during his summer > placement. Will has returned to his studies, and Will Szumski (jovial) has > picked it up. You don't have to be called Will to work on Tenks, but it > helps. > > There are various resources available for anyone wishing to find out more: > > * Ironic spec review: https://review.openstack.org/#/c/579583 > * Documentation: https://tenks.readthedocs.io/en/latest/ > * Source code: https://github.com/stackhpc/tenks > * Blog: https://stackhpc.com/tenks.html > * IRC: mgoddard or jovial in #openstack-ironic > > What does everyone think? Is this something that the ironic community > could or should take ownership of? > Makes sense to me, but we should also have an explicit goal of using tenks to kill our devstack code (and the other things mentioned). Consider me +2 on the spec but leaving time for additional discussion. :) Thanks Mark! // jim > > [1] > http://eavesdrop.openstack.org/meetings/ironic/2018/ironic.2018-10-01-15.00.log.html#l-170 > > Thanks, > Mark > __________________________________________________________________________ > OpenStack Development Mailing List (not for usage questions) > Unsubscribe: openstack-dev-requ...@lists.openstack.org?subject:unsubscribe > http://lists.openstack.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/openstack-dev >
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