More MEC, less DHCP:PXE, with ZTP and Ironic
Channel: OpenInfra Foundation
Date: 17/06/2022

The two main goals of this presentation are to demonstrate how it is possible to horizontally scale an edge site with zero-touch provisioning (ZTP) and without the use of PXE and DHCP. Many edge deployments, especially those using a stretched control plane model, rely on PXE and DHCP relays to provision new nodes at the edge site. By taking advantage of Ironic’s layer 3 or DHCP-less capability, which is built on top of its Redfish virtual media boot and ramdisk boot functionality, a multi-access edge computing (MEC) site can be scaled out securely and reliably.

Our presentations takes you step-by-step through how new Intel Smart Edge MEC nodes can be provisioned to an edge site by using Ironic and other tooling to perform touch-free provisioning, deployment, and enrollment of the nodes. With a Smart Edge controller deployed on a cluster running in the core data center, all that is needed for each node is the baseboard management controller IP address and credentials, pre-allocated IP addresses, and a Smart Edge enrollment token.

Speakers:
David Paterson
Richard Pioso
Akhilesh Thyagaturu

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