Bare Metal Service Installation Guide

The Bare Metal service is a collection of components that provides support to manage and provision physical machines.

This chapter assumes a working setup of OpenStack following the OpenStack Installation Guides. It contains the following sections:

• Bare Metal service overview
  • Bare Metal service components
  • Deployment architecture
  • Interaction with OpenStack components
  • Logical architecture
  • Associated projects
• Reference Deploy Architectures
  • Common Considerations
  • Scenarios
• Install and configure the Bare Metal service
  • Install and configure for Red Hat Enterprise Linux and CentOS
  • Install and configure for Ubuntu
  • Install and configure for openSUSE and SUSE Linux Enterprise
• Create user images for the Bare Metal service
  • Building user images
• Building or downloading a deploy ramdisk image
  • Building from source
• Integration with other OpenStack services
  • Configure the Identity service for the Bare Metal service
  • Configure the Compute service to use the Bare Metal service
  • Configure the Networking service for bare metal provisioning
  • Configuring services for bare metal provisioning using IPv6
  • Configure the Image service for temporary URLs
  • Enabling HTTPS
  • Configure the Bare Metal service for cleaning
  • Configure tenant networks
  • Add images to the Image service
  • Create flavors for use with the Bare Metal service
• Set up the drivers for the Bare Metal service
  • Enabling drivers and hardware types
  • Configuring PXE and iPXE
  • Configuring IPMI support
  • Configuring iSCSI-based drivers
• Enrollment
  • Choosing a driver
  • Note on API versions
  • Enrollment process
  • Logical names
  • Defaults for hardware interfaces
  • Hardware Inspection
  • Tenant Networks and Port Groups
• Using Bare Metal service as a standalone service
  • Service settings
  • Preparing images
  • Using CLI
  • Enrolling nodes
  • Populating instance_info
  • Deployment
  • Ramdisk booting
  • Other references
• Enabling the configuration drive (configdrive)
  • When used with Compute service
  • When used standalone
  • Configuration drive storage in an object store
  • Accessing the configuration drive data
  • Cloud-init integration
• Advanced features
  • Local boot with partition images
  • Specifying the disk for deployment (root device hints)
  • Appending kernel parameters to boot instances
  • Boot mode support
  • Choosing the disk label
  • Notifications
  • Configuring node web console
• Troubleshooting
  • Maintenance mode
• Next steps