Petitboot boot driver¶
This spec was proposed in the Liberty cycle. In the Rocky cycle it was moved to the backlog folder as it is not presently being worked upon with-in the community. It was later retired.
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Ironic Specs 0.0.1.dev825
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- Wallaby Project Priorities
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- Collect sensor data asynchronously
- Boot configuration API
- Add support for configdrive checksums
- Container console container provider
- Deferred (resumable) Actions
- API Evolution: etag ID
- Expose supported power states
- Firmware endpoint hardware identity
- Out-of-Band Inspection as Clean, Service, Verify Steps
- Kea DHCP backend
- Project Mercury
- Multi-Component Batched Firmware Updates
- NGS: Modern Switch Configuration Drivers
- NGS: Structured CLI Drivers for Linux-Based Switch Platforms
- Node Maintenance: Extensible Model
- VXLAN Support
- Introduce Driver Capabilities
- BMC event framework
- Add new node name filter API
- Obtaining Steps
- Support a new hardware type for Fujitsu PRIMEQUEST MMB
- Support per driver sensor meters
- Deployment of Bootable Containers (bootc)
- Graphical Console Support
- Migrate inspection rules from Inspector
- OCI (Container Registry) URL Support
- Firmware interface
- Modifying Active Nodes with Service Steps
- The evolution of the Smart NICs to DPUs
- Apply pre-defined system hardware configuration in single step
- System Scoped Role Based Access Control
- Define idrac Hardware Type Support of Redfish Interfaces
- Out-of-band disk-erase for Gen10 and above HPE Proliant Servers
- Support for Software RAID
- Add Intel® Speed Select Support
- Allocation API
- Deploy Templates
- Huawei iBMC Driver
- Out-of-band RAID configuration for Gen10 and above HPE Proliant Servers
- Ownership Information Storage
- Smart NIC Networking
- The direct deploy interface provisioning with HTTP server
- Expose conductor information from API
- Promote iPXE to separate boot interface
- Out of Band Inspection support for
redfishhardware type
- Boot from a Ramdisk
- Conductor/node grouping affinity
- Deployment Steps Framework
- Hardware interface for BIOS configuration
- Future of classic drivers
- Add Inspect Wait State
- Support baremetal inspection abort
- Power fault recovery
- SIGHUP on ironic services
- Promote Ansible deploy interface to ironic
- UEFI iSCSI Boot for iLO drivers
- Implement Rescue Mode
- Node Traits
- Lenovo XClarity Driver
- Boot from Volume - Reference Drivers
- Dynamic port groups
- Physical Network Awareness
- Add volume connection information for Ironic nodes
- Add notifications about resources CRUD and node states
- Driver composition reform
- Enhance Power Interface for Soft Power Off and NMI
- Interface Attach and Detach API
- Ironic Neutron Integration
- Add notification support to ironic
- Add InfiniBand Support
- Collect logs from agent ramdisk
- iPXE to use Swift Temporary URLs
- Implementation of ironic commands as an OSC plugin
- Third Party Driver Continuous Integration Testing
- Add pluggable metrics backend for Ironic and IPA
- Promote agent vendor passthru to core API
- Collect system logs from IPA
- Keystone Policy Support
- Pluggable network providers
- Add node resource_class field
- Nova-compatible Serial Console
- Dynamic allocation of nodes for the OneView drivers
- HTTP(S) proxy support for agent images downloading
- Switch periodic tasks to the Futurist library
- In-band RAID configuration using agent ramdisk
- New driver interface for RAID configuration
- Manual cleaning
- In-band cleaning support in iSCSI deploy drivers
- New driver in Ironic for OneView
- Ceph Object Gateway Temp URL support
- SSH Console
- Bare Metal Trust Using Intel TXT
- Cisco IMC PXE Driver
- Deprecate the bash ramdisk
- Boot Interface in Ironic
- Make ilo drivers standalone in ironic by removing swift dependency
- Cisco UCS PXE driver
- DRAC vendor passthru for BIOS settings management
- Add “enroll” state to the state machine
- Move Ironic to a feature-based release model
- iRMC Virtual Media Deploy Driver for Ironic
- Open CloudServer (OCS) power driver
- Determinable supported boot device list
- UEFI Secure Boot support for pxe_iLO driver
- Client Caching Of Negotiated Version
- Wake-On-Lan (WOL) power driver
- AMT PXE Driver
- Ironic Microversions
- automate-uefi-bios-iso-creation
- Driver Internal Info
- Allow drivers to have their own periodic tasks
- Expose configdrive to instances
- Extend Vendor Passthru
- Implement Cleaning Operations for iLO drivers
- iLO Management Interface
- Discover node properties and capabilities for iLO drivers
- Implement Cleaning States
- In-band hardware properties introspection via ironic-discoverd
- iRMC Management Driver for Ironic
- iRMC Power Driver for Ironic
- Discover node properties with node-set-provision-state
- Add support for VirtualBox through WebService
- Local boot support with partition images
- Ironic Logical Names
- Add maintenance reason field
- A proposal for the New Ironic State Machine.
- Support for non-glance image references
- Root device hints
- Seamicro Serial Console
- UEFI Secure Boot support for iLO drivers
- Whole Disk Image Support
- Add instance_info field to Node model
- Add Support for Retry on NodeLocked Exceptions
- Agent Driver
- Mechanism to cleanup all ImageCaches
- More robust device status checking with fuser
- DRAC Management driver for Ironic
- DRAC Power Driver for Ironic
- Enabling IPMI double bridge support
- API to Get driver_info Properties
- iLO IPA Deploy Driver
- iPXE boot
- iLO Power Driver for Ironic
- iLO Virtual Media iSCSI Deploy Driver
- Power driver for SNMP-enabled smart PDUs
- New driver ManagementInterface
- Send Sensor Data to Ceilometer
- Support external DHCP providers
- Swift Temporary URLs
- UEFI support for Ironic deploy drivers
- Attestation Interface and Keylime Integration
- Discover node properties and capabilities for ucs drivers
- Out-of-band RAID configuration using Cisco UCS drivers
- Dell EMC hardware firmware update
- iPXE Dynamic Configuration
- Redfish Proxy for Ironic Node Power Controls
- No IPA to conductor communication
- Nodes tagging
- OpenBMC Driver
- Override PXE options via Glance property
- Petitboot boot driver
- Snapshot support
- Synchronize events with Neutron
- VNC Graphical console