Building or downloading a deploy ramdisk image

Ironic depends on having an image with the ironic-python-agent (IPA) service running on it for controlling and deploying bare metal nodes.

Two kinds of images are published on every commit from every branch of ironic-python-agent (IPA)

• DIB images are suitable for production usage and can be downloaded from https://tarballs.openstack.org/ironic-python-agent/dib/files/.

  • For Train and older use CentOS 7 images.

  • For Ussuri and newer use CentOS 8 images.

  Warning

  CentOS 7 master images are no longer updated and must not be used.

  Warning

  The published images will not work for dhcp-less deployments since the simple-init element is not present. Check the DIB documentation to see how to build the image.

• TinyIPA images are suitable for CI and testing environments and can be downloaded from https://tarballs.openstack.org/ironic-python-agent/tinyipa/files/.

Building from source

Check the ironic-python-agent-builder project for information on how to build ironic-python-agent ramdisks.