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| author | Dmitry Tantsur <dtantsur@protonmail.com> | 2020-11-26 11:38:39 +0100 |
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| committer | Dmitry Tantsur <dtantsur@protonmail.com> | 2020-12-23 18:30:07 +0100 |
| commit | 06a1d38fc12eb09772383ffa954a78d96e52f6e1 (patch) | |
| tree | d807a4deb416d76a4becdacbdcfa02663d1ba972 /doc | |
| parent | 6c9e28dd505a19d405b5ab75500cde555b4aca8d (diff) | |
| download | ironic-06a1d38fc12eb09772383ffa954a78d96e52f6e1.tar.gz | |
Support configdrive when doing ramdisk deploy with redfish-virtual-media
When using Redfish virtual media, it's possible to connect a configdrive
via a free USB slot when the ramdisk deploy is used.
Using Swift as configdrive storage is not supported in this case yet.
Story: #2008380
Task: #41302
Change-Id: Ib847dbfe96072cfe4137388ba88ef133bd7ab186
Diffstat (limited to 'doc')
| -rw-r--r-- | doc/source/admin/drivers/redfish.rst | 6 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | doc/source/admin/ramdisk-boot.rst | 3 |
2 files changed, 7 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/doc/source/admin/drivers/redfish.rst b/doc/source/admin/drivers/redfish.rst index dc5451978..5ebebfc19 100644 --- a/doc/source/admin/drivers/redfish.rst +++ b/doc/source/admin/drivers/redfish.rst @@ -269,7 +269,11 @@ of ``ACTIVE``. This initial interface does not support bootloader configuration parameter injection, as such the ``[instance_info]/kernel_append_params`` -setting is ignored. Configuration drives are not supported yet. +setting is ignored. + +Configuration drives are supported starting with the Wallaby release +for nodes that have a free virtual USB slot. The configuration option +``[deploy]configdrive_use_object_store`` must be set to ``False`` for now. Layer 3 or DHCP-less ramdisk booting ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ diff --git a/doc/source/admin/ramdisk-boot.rst b/doc/source/admin/ramdisk-boot.rst index dc212d6ea..bac14a6e9 100644 --- a/doc/source/admin/ramdisk-boot.rst +++ b/doc/source/admin/ramdisk-boot.rst @@ -60,7 +60,8 @@ The intended use case is for advanced scientific and ephemeral workloads where the step of writing an image to the local storage is not required or desired. As such, this interface does come with several caveats: -* Configuration drives are not supported. +* Configuration drives are not supported with network boot, only with Redfish + virtual media. * Disk image contents are not written to the bare metal node. * Users and Operators who intend to leverage this interface should expect to leverage a metadata service, custom ramdisk images, or the |