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| author | Dmitry Tantsur <dtantsur@protonmail.com> | 2021-05-03 17:35:26 +0200 |
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| committer | Dmitry Tantsur <dtantsur@protonmail.com> | 2021-05-03 17:40:58 +0200 |
| commit | e79f163837dd2c27f84f693aba0f1575fa2353f7 (patch) | |
| tree | 251e726788c6774063a9d50477a3480c261ff759 | |
| parent | bad281cf161d4ffa2c87f0155c5cd572289c0251 (diff) | |
| download | ironic-e79f163837dd2c27f84f693aba0f1575fa2353f7.tar.gz | |
Update refarch with information about image_download_source
Change-Id: Ia06b01e89d79bf0f65d95dd0c20e91b456b8acae
| -rw-r--r-- | doc/source/admin/interfaces/deploy.rst | 2 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | doc/source/install/refarch/common.rst | 25 |
2 files changed, 20 insertions, 7 deletions
diff --git a/doc/source/admin/interfaces/deploy.rst b/doc/source/admin/interfaces/deploy.rst index f8fbb3916..aaac9245e 100644 --- a/doc/source/admin/interfaces/deploy.rst +++ b/doc/source/admin/interfaces/deploy.rst @@ -27,6 +27,8 @@ You can specify this deploy interface when creating or updating a node:: ``agent``. This is because before the Kilo release **ironic-python-agent** used to only support this deploy interface. +.. _image_download_source: + Deploy with custom HTTP servers ------------------------------- diff --git a/doc/source/install/refarch/common.rst b/doc/source/install/refarch/common.rst index 0c1e99803..f4fdac2b8 100644 --- a/doc/source/install/refarch/common.rst +++ b/doc/source/install/refarch/common.rst @@ -312,15 +312,26 @@ the space requirements are different: * The deployment kernel and ramdisk are always cached during the deployment. -* The ``iscsi`` deploy method requires caching of the whole instance image - locally during the deployment. The image has to be converted to the raw - format, which may increase the required amount of disk space, as well as - the CPU load. +* When ``[agent]image_download_source`` is set to ``http`` and Glance is used, + the conductor will download instances images locally to serve them from its + HTTP server. Use ``swift`` to publish images using temporary URLs and convert + them on the node's side. + + When ``[agent]image_download_source`` is set to ``local``, it will happen + even for HTTP(s) URLs. For standalone case use ``http`` to avoid unnecessary + caching of images. + + In both cases a cached image is converted to raw if ``force_raw_images`` + is ``True`` (the default). .. note:: - This is not a concern for the ``direct`` deploy interface, as in this case - the deployment ramdisk downloads the image and either streams it to the - disk or caches it in memory. + ``image_download_source`` can also be provided in the node's + ``driver_info`` or ``instance_info``. See :ref:`image_download_source`. + +* The ``iscsi`` deploy method always requires caching of the whole instance + image locally during the deployment. The image has to be converted to the raw + format, which may increase the required amount of disk space, as well as the + CPU load. * When network boot is used, the instance image kernel and ramdisk are cached locally while the instance is active. |