On 10/25/2013 09:22 AM, Dmitry Mescheryakov wrote: > Hello Travis, > > We didn't researched Savanna on bare metal, though we considered it some > time ago. I know little of bare metal provisioning, so I am rather > unsure what problems you might experience. > > My main concern are images: does bare metal provisioning work with qcow2 > images? Vanilla plugin (which installs Vanilla Apache Hadoop) requires a > pre-built Linux images with Hadoop, so if qcow2 does not work for bare > metal, you will need to somehow build images in required format.. On the > other hand HDP plugin (which installs Hortonworks Data Platform), does > not require pre-built images, but works only on Red Hat OSes, as far as > I know.
Absolutely works with qcow2 images. We should start a conversation about savana and diskimage-builder too, btw. > Another concern: does bare metal support cloud-init? Savanna relies on > it and reimplementing that functionality some other way might take some > time. Absolutely. (as long as the image has cloud-init in it of course) > As for your concern on which API calls Savanna makes: it is a pretty > small list of requests. Mainly authentication with keystone, basic > operations with VMs via nova (create, list, terminate), basic operations > with images (list, set/get attributes). Snapshots are not used. That is > for basic functionality. Other than that, some features might require > additional API calls. For instance Cinder support naturally requires > calls for volume create/list/delete. I'm excited to see an exploration of savana on nova-baremetal. > > 2013/10/25 Tripp, Travis S <travis.tr...@hp.com > <mailto:travis..tr...@hp.com>> > > Hello Savanna team,____ > > __ __ > > I’ve just skimmed through the online documentation and I’m very > interested in this project. We have a grizzly environment with all > the latest patches as well as several Havana backports applied. We > are are doing bare metal provisioning through Nova. It is limited > to flat networking.____ > > __ __ > > Would Savanna work in this environment? What are the requirements? > What are the minimum set of API calls that need to supported (for > example, we can’t support snapshots)?____ > > __ __ > > Thank you,____ > > Travis____ > > > _______________________________________________ > OpenStack-dev mailing list > OpenStack-dev@lists.openstack.org > <mailto:OpenStack-dev@lists.openstack.org> > http://lists.openstack.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/openstack-dev > > > > > _______________________________________________ > OpenStack-dev mailing list > OpenStack-dev@lists.openstack.org > http://lists.openstack.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/openstack-dev > _______________________________________________ OpenStack-dev mailing list OpenStack-dev@lists.openstack.org http://lists.openstack.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/openstack-dev
