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vBMC, faux'ing bare-metal

vBMC, faux'ing bare-metal

VirtualBMC, or vBMC for short, is an excellent little tool which provides an IMPI interface to KVM virtual machines within libvirt. This tiny post will show how it can be setup as a service, which allows it to be started and stopped with the host machine. Because vBMC is a

OSIC Baremetal (Ironic) network Separation

OSIC Baremetal (Ironic) network Separation

Generating Isolated (Separated) Networks on Baremetal In the OSIC-DFW environment we're running Ironic with OpenStack integration to allow our consumers access to physical compute resources. Because of limitations in Ironic at the time of this writing we're not able to fully provide for L3 tenant networking

OSIC Building Baremetal (Ironic) Images

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OSIC Building Baremetal (Ironic) Images

This is a quick rundown on the steps used to create the OSIC baremetal images. For a more detailed rundown on Ironic image building please read the following post. Install required apt packages apt-get install -y qemu uuid-runtime curl kpartx Install the disk-image-builder (DIB) pip install diskimage-builder --isolated Clone the

OpenStack Ironic Node Enrollment

OpenStack Ironic Node Enrollment

Enroll your first node into ironic Enrolling a node into Ironic is quite simple though its non-trival. It's only a couple of API calls to make all of it come together but does require a bit of information. In the after now the Ironic Inspector should make life

OpenStack Ironic Images and Flavors

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OpenStack Ironic Images and Flavors

Building images and crafting flavors is non-trivial. I've searched the world wide web for prebuilt images which universally work with Ironic and sadly there's nothing out there. So without further ado here is how you can build your own images and create a flavor. Building Ironic

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