Note that if it gets that far, it starts superseding an xCAT 2 install. Traditionally, an xCAT+confluent install has confluent receive configuration from xCAT through makeconfluentcfg, and provides hardware management/console services.
As confluent's discovery facility improved, it became a bit more likely for things to be confluent-first, and 'confluent2xcat' to export configuration to xCAT to do deployment. Using confluent's OS deployment starts taking things down the path of xCAT not having much to do, with console, hardware management, and os deployment handled under confluent. The first scenario (makeconfluentcfg): https://hpc.lenovo.com/users/documentation/configconfluent_xcat.html I have realized we don't actually touch on the second scenario in the documentation, but that wouldn't lead to ansible support anyway. There's a 'quickstart' that strives to be in the ballpark of the 'idataplex quickstart' from back in the day of xCAT documentation: https://hpc.lenovo.com/users/documentation/confluentquickstart_el8.html (It skips the physical switch scenario and reserves that for the more detailed documentation) The more detailed material deliving into a pure confluent configuration: https://hpc.lenovo.com/users/documentation/configconfluent.html But also note that 3.2 won't be out for a couple of weeks, so the Ansible integration is not covered since it doesn't exist as far as public releases are concerned yet. Was curious if this sort of ansible integration was of interest versus other possible interpretations of that request. Of those I've spoken to, this is consistent with what they wanted to do, but was wondering if alternative interpretations of 'ansible integration' would also be desired. ________________________________ From: Imam Toufique <techie...@gmail.com> Sent: Saturday, May 15, 2021 12:25 AM To: xCAT Users Mailing list <xcat-user@lists.sourceforge.net> Subject: Re: [xcat-user] [External] ability to integrate with Ansible (Coming soon) Where do I find documentation on confluent and how does it integrate with xcat ? thanks On Fri, May 14, 2021 at 10:36 AM Jarrod Johnson <jjohns...@lenovo.com<mailto:jjohns...@lenovo.com>> wrote: Note I can't speak to xcat-invenntory, but the upcoming confluent release has some definition of ansible integration. In confluent 3.2, a deployment profile can have scripts executed directly on nodes (basically the same as postscripts): /var/lib/confluent/public/os/<profilename>/scripts/firstboot.d /var/lib/confluent/public/os/<profilename>/scripts/post.d Additionally, playbooks may be remotely triggered at points of the deployment: /var/lib/confluent/public/os/<profilename>/ansible/firstboot.d /var/lib/confluent/public/os/<profilename>/ansible/post.d The 'hosts' field will be specifically whatever node that enters that phase. The play will be executed as the confluent user on the deployment server, targeting the deploying server (with a separate automation user key that you must opt into, since confluent isn't allowed to read user's private keys). Also, if pertinent, the corresponding release of confluent genesis has enough python to be targeted by ansible plays. It has 'onboot' scripts and ansible plays supported. However, it's far more optional in confluent (emphasis on standby power discovery, PXE discovery if needed can be done during the PXE attempt, and the 'configbmc' script if needed should also work as 'pre.d' script for an installing system, to roll most genesis actions into the OS installers instead of requiring genesis to boot first. That is a specific interpretation of 'ansible support' and I welcome more requests (e.g. for confluent to provide facts and/or a module to use something in lieu of cmdline. ________________________________ From: James Goebel <jkgoe...@bu.edu<mailto:jkgoe...@bu.edu>> Sent: Friday, May 14, 2021 11:58 AM To: xcat-user@lists.sourceforge.net<mailto:xcat-user@lists.sourceforge.net> <xcat-user@lists.sourceforge.net<mailto:xcat-user@lists.sourceforge.net>> Subject: [External] [xcat-user] ability to integrate with Ansible (Coming soon) On the xcat-inventory github page there is the suggestion that Ansible integration is planned. Has there been any progress on this? https://github.com/xcat2/xcat-inventory _______________________________________________ xCAT-user mailing list xCAT-user@lists.sourceforge.net<mailto:xCAT-user@lists.sourceforge.net> https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/xcat-user -- Regards, Imam Toufique 213-700-5485
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