Redfish hardware type and interfaces¶
https://bugs.launchpad.net/ironic/+bug/1526477
This specification proposes the addition of a new redfish
hardware
type, power and management interfaces in order to support ironic
deployment on Redfish compliant servers.
Problem description¶
The Distributed Management Task Force (DMTF) has published a new specification called Redfish (refer to http://www.dmtf.org/standards/redfish) to provide a RESTful based API to manage servers in a standard way. This specification aims at adding support to ironic for controlling Redfish compliant servers.
Proposed change¶
This spec proposes adding a new redfish
hardware type, power and
management interfaces. None of which will be enabled by default.
The new interfaces will use the sushy library in order to handle the communication between the driver and the Redfish controller.
This library may be switched to python-redfish in the future after re-evaluation by the ironic community. The switch to python-redfish is outside the scope of this specification, but it should not cause any public interface to be changed. It would most likely involve code changes and new configuration options.
Note that no OEM specific extension will be supported.
Alternatives¶
None
Data model impact¶
None
RPC API impact¶
None
State Machine Impact¶
None
REST API impact¶
None
Driver API impact¶
None
Nova driver impact¶
None
Ramdisk impact¶
None
Security impact¶
None
Client (CLI) impact¶
None
Other end user impact¶
None
Scalability impact¶
None
Performance Impact¶
None
Other deployer impact¶
The following driver_info fields are required while enrolling nodes into ironic:
redfish_address
: The URL address to the Redfish controller. It should include scheme and authority portion of the URL. For example: https://mgmt.vendor.com
redfish_system_id
: The canonical path to the ComputerSystem resource that the driver will interact with. It should include the root service, version and the unique resource path to a ComputerSystem within the same authority as the redfish_address property. For example: /redfish/v1/Systems/1
redfish_username
: User account with admin/server-profile access privilege. Although this property is not mandatory it’s highly recommended to set a username. Optional
redfish_password
: User account password. Although this property is not mandatory it’s highly recommended to set a password. Optional
redfish_verify_ca
: This property contains either a boolean value, a path to a CA_BUNDLE file or directory with certificates of trusted CAs. If set to True the driver will verify the host certificates; if False the driver will ignore verifying the SSL certificate; If it’s a path the driver will use the specified certificate or one of the certificates in the directory. Defaults to True. Optional
For more information about the expected syntax of the
redfish_system_id
property check the Resource identifier property
section of the DMTF specification.
The following new configuration variables are proposed (and their default values) to be added to the conductor variable group:
[redfish]/
connection_attempts
Maximum number of attempts to try to connect to Redfish.
[redfish]/
connection_retry_interval
Number of seconds to wait between attempts to connect to Redfish.
Developer impact¶
None
Implementation¶
Assignee(s)¶
Primary assignee:
bcornec
lucasagomes
Other contributors:
ribaudr
Work Items¶
Add a new
redfish
hardware type, power and management interfaces.Write unit-tests for the new code.
Modify the ironic DevStack module to setup a virtual environment that is able to test nodes using the new Redfish driver.
Write documentation.
Dependencies¶
The new redfish
power and management interfaces will require the
sushy library to be installed on the conductor node.
Testing¶
Unit-tests will be implemented for Redfish support.
DevStack will be updated to setup the nodes with the redfish driver and the libvirt mockup that is shipped with Sushy allowing it to be tests in gate against virtual machines.
Upgrades and Backwards Compatibility¶
This driver will not break any compatibility with either the REST API or the RPC API.
Documentation Impact¶
Updating ironic documentation section Enabling Drivers with Redfish related instructions.
Updating ironic install-guide documentation section Setup the drivers for the Bare Metal service.
References¶
Redfish DMTF: http://www.dmtf.org/standards/redfish
Sushy library: https://github.com/openstack/sushy
python-redfish library: https://github.com/openstack/python-redfish