Hello Vladimir,
I would prefer an agent-less node, meaning the agent is only used
under the ramdisk OS to collect hw info, to do firmware updates and to
install nodes etc. In this sense, the agent running as root is fine. Once
the node is installed, the agent should be out of the picture.
+1
From: Ling Gao [mailto:ling...@us.ibm.com]
Sent: Friday, April 04, 2014 10:10 AM
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Cc: OpenStack Development Mailing List (not for usage questions)
Subject: Re: [openstack-dev] [Ironic][Agent] Ironic-python-agent
Hello Vladimir
+1
The agent is a tool Ironic is using to take the place of a
hypervisor to discover and prepare nodes to recieve workloads. For
hardware, this includes more work -- such as firmware flashing, bios
configuration, and disk imaging -- all of which must be done in an
OOB manner.
