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| author | Dmitry Tantsur <dtantsur@protonmail.com> | 2020-08-27 10:49:41 +0200 |
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| committer | Dmitry Tantsur <dtantsur@protonmail.com> | 2020-09-02 15:15:11 +0200 |
| commit | c31cb7d99a3137ad1991daba866c877a6909168e (patch) | |
| tree | cf7b80876f0aaeb55d294e7d71415f4d91be9129 /doc | |
| parent | 99e8fc981056735928443fa572a38a10d07a51ff (diff) | |
| download | ironic-c31cb7d99a3137ad1991daba866c877a6909168e.tar.gz | |
Support file:/// images for the direct deploy
Implemented via the same mechanism as for image_download_source=http.
Forcing raw format (and thus streaming) is supported as well.
Since we always re-calculate checksums for such images, the requirement
on providing them via the API is lifted.
Change-Id: Ife385c3b363c28559c90e5a54e9c6f6807d207ff
Story: #2008075
Task: #40764
Diffstat (limited to 'doc')
| -rw-r--r-- | doc/source/install/standalone.rst | 17 |
1 files changed, 8 insertions, 9 deletions
diff --git a/doc/source/install/standalone.rst b/doc/source/install/standalone.rst index 553c58306..60c865355 100644 --- a/doc/source/install/standalone.rst +++ b/doc/source/install/standalone.rst @@ -88,22 +88,21 @@ Preparing images If you don't use Image service, it's possible to provide images to Bare Metal service via a URL. -.. note:: - At the moment, only two types of URLs are acceptable instead of Image - service UUIDs: HTTP(S) URLs (for example, "http://my.server.net/images/img") - and file URLs (file:///images/img). +At the moment, only two types of URLs are acceptable instead of Image +service UUIDs: HTTP(S) URLs (for example, "http://my.server.net/images/img") +and file URLs (file:///images/img). There are however some limitations for different hardware interfaces: -* If you're using :ref:`direct-deploy`, you have to provide the Bare Metal - service with the MD5 checksum of your instance image. To compute it, you can - use the following command:: +* If you're using :ref:`direct-deploy` with HTTP(s) URLs, you have to provide + the Bare Metal service with the MD5 checksum of your instance image. + To compute it, you can use the following command:: md5sum image.qcow2 ed82def8730f394fb85aef8a208635f6 image.qcow2 -* :ref:`direct-deploy` requires the instance image be accessible through a - HTTP(s) URL. +* :ref:`direct-deploy` started supporting ``file://`` images in the Victoria + release cycle, before that only HTTP(s) had been supported. .. note:: The Bare Metal service tracks content changes for non-Glance images by |