Bifrost

" The mission of Bifrost is to provide an easy path to deploy ironic in a stand-alone fashion "

Installation

There are different ways to deploy Bifrost (cf https://docs.openstack.org/bifrost/latest/install/index.html) but the easiest (I think) is through to a dedicated (pre-built) conainter.

docker pull quay.io/openstack.kolla/bifrost-deploy:zed-rocky-9

docker run -it --net=host -v /dev:/dev -d \
--privileged --name bifrost_deploy \
quay.io/openstack.kolla/bifrost-deploy:zed-rocky-9

docker exec -it bifrost_deploy bash

mkdir -p /etc/bifrost
cat > /etc/bifrost/bifrost.yml << EOF
ansible_python_interpreter: /var/lib/kolla/venv/bin/python
enabled_hardware_types: ipmi,redfish
enabled_deploy_interfaces: direct,ramdisk,anaconda
cleaning: false
network_interface: ens3
mysql_username: root
mysql_password:
create_image_via_dib: false
dib_image_type: vm
create_ipa_image: false
dnsmasq_router: <@IP_router>
dnsmasq_dns_servers: <@IP_nameserver>
dnsmasq_ntp_servers: <@IP_ntp_server>
use_firewalld: false
default_boot_mode: bios
dhcp_pool_start: <@IP_dhcp_pool_start>
dhcp_pool_end: <@IP_dhcp_pool_end>
dhcp_lease_time: 12h
dhcp_static_mask: <netmastk>
EOF

cd /bifrost/playbooks
ansible-playbook -vvvv \
-i /bifrost/playbooks/inventory/target \
/bifrost/playbooks/install.yaml \
-e @/etc/bifrost/bifrost.yml \
-e skip_package_install=true

A few points of attention :

• network_interface is the network interface of the host running the container
• use_firewalld is set here to false because it prevents accessing the host with SSH by default ...