Chapter 3. Deploying an overcloud with the Bare Metal Provisioning service To deploy an overcloud with the Bare Metal Provisioning service (ironic), you must create and configure the bare metal network, and configure the overcloud to enable bare metal provisioning. Create the bare metal network. You can reuse the provisioning network interface on the Controller nodes to create a flat network, or you can create a custom network: Configuring the default flat network Configuring a custom IPv4 provisioning network Configuring a custom IPv6 provisioning network Configure the overcloud to enable bare metal provisioning: Configuring the overcloud to enable bare metal provisioning Note If you use Open Virtual Network (OVN), the Bare Metal Provisioning service is supported only with the DHCP agent defined in the ironic-overcloud.yaml file, neutron-dhcp-agent . The built-in DHCP server on OVN cannot provision bare metal nodes or serve DHCP for the provisioning networks. To enable iPXE chain loading you must set the --dhcp-match tag in dnsmasq, which is not supported by the OVN DHCP server. Prerequisites Your environment meets the minimum requirements. For more information, see Requirements for bare metal provisioning . 3.1. Configuring the default flat network To use the default flat bare metal network, you reuse the provisioning network interface on the Controller nodes to create a bridge for the Bare Metal Provisioning service (ironic). Procedure Log in to the undercloud as the stack user. Source the stackrc file: Modify the /home/stack/templates/nic-configs/controller.yaml file to reuse the provisioning network interface on the Controller nodes, eth1 , to create a bridge for the bare metal network: Note You cannot VLAN tag the bare metal network when you create it by reusing the provisioning network. Add br-baremetal to the NeutronBridgeMappings parameter in your network-environment.yaml file: Add baremetal to the list of networks specified by the NeutronFlatNetworks parameter in your network-environment.yaml file: steps Configuring the overcloud to enable bare metal provisioning 3.2. Configuring a custom IPv4 provisioning network Create a custom IPv4 provisioning network to provision and deploy the overcloud over IPv4. Procedure Log in to the undercloud host as the stack user. Source the stackrc undercloud credentials file: Copy the network_data.yaml file to your environment file directory: Add a new network for overcloud provisioning to your network_data.yaml file: Replace <ipv4_subnet_address> with the IPv4 address of your IPv4 subnet. Replace <ipv4_mask> with the IPv4 network mask for your IPv4 subnet. Replace <ipv4_start_address> and <ipv4_end_address> with the IPv4 range that you want to use for address allocation. Configure IronicApiNetwork and IronicNetwork in your ServiceNetMap configuration to use the new IPv4 provisioning network: Add the new network as an interface to your local Controller NIC configuration file: Copy the roles_data.yaml file to your environment file directory: Add the new network for the controller to your roles_data.yaml file: Include the IronicInspector service in the Ironic role in your roles_data.yaml file, if not already present: steps Configuring the overcloud to enable bare metal provisioning 3.3. Configuring a custom IPv6 provisioning network Create a custom IPv6 provisioning network to provision and deploy the overcloud over IPv6. Procedure Log in to the undercloud as the stack user. Source the stackrc file: Copy the network_data.yaml file to your environment file directory: Add a new IPv6 network for overcloud provisioning to your network_data.yaml file: Replace <ipv6_subnet_address> with the IPv6 address of your IPv6 subnet. Replace <ipv6_prefix> with the IPv6 network prefix for your IPv6 subnet. Replace <ipv6_start_address> and <ipv6_end_address> with the IPv6 range that you want to use for address allocation. Replace <ipv6_gw_address> with the IPv6 address of your gateway. Create a new file network_environment_overrides.yaml in your environment file directory: Configure IronicApiNetwork and IronicNetwork in your network_environment_overrides.yaml file to use the new IPv6 provisioning network: Set the IronicIpVersion parameter to 6 : Enable the RabbitIPv6 , MysqlIPv6 , and RedisIPv6 parameters: Add the new network as an interface to your local Controller NIC configuration file: Copy the roles_data.yaml file to your environment file directory: Add the new network for the Controller role to your roles_data.yaml file: Include the IronicInspector service in the Ironic role in your roles_data.yaml file, if not already present: steps Configuring the overcloud to enable bare metal provisioning 3.4. Configuring the overcloud to enable bare metal provisioning To enable the Bare Metal Provisioning service (ironic) on your overcloud, use one of the default templates located in the /usr/share/openstack-tripleo-heat-templates/environments/services directory in your overcloud deployment: For deployments that use OVS: ironic.yaml For deployments that use OVN: ironic-overcloud.yaml You can also create a local environment file to override the default configuration, as required by your deployment. If you want to enable the Bare Metal Provisioning inspector service, ironic-inspector , you must also include the /usr/share/openstack-tripleo-heat-templates/environments/services/ironic-inspector.yaml file in your overcloud deployment. Procedure Create an environment file in your local directory to configure the Bare Metal Provisioning service for your deployment, for example, ironic-overrides.yaml . Optional: Configure the type of cleaning that is performed on the bare metal machines before and between provisioning: Replace <cleaning_type> with one of the following values: full : (Default) Performs a full clean. metadata : Clean only the partition table. This type of cleaning substantially speeds up the cleaning process. However, because the deployment is less secure in a multi-tenant environment, use this option only in a trusted tenant environment. Optional: Add additional drivers to the default drivers: Replace [additional_driver_1] , and optionally all drivers up to [additional_driver_n] , with the additional drivers you want to enable. To enable bare metal introspection, add the following configuration to your local Bare Metal Provisioning service environment file, ironic-overrides.yaml : Replace <ip_range> with the IP ranges for your environments, for example, 192.168.0.100,192.168.0.120 . Replace <ip_address>:<port> with the IP address and port of the web server that hosts the IPA kernel and ramdisk. To use the same images that you use on the undercloud, set the IP address to the undercloud IP address, and the port to 8088 . If you omit this parameter, you must include alternatives on each Controller node. Replace <baremetal_interface> with the bare metal network interface, for example, br-baremetal . Add your new role and custom environment files to the stack with your other environment files and deploy the overcloud: Replace <default_ironic_template> with either ironic.yaml or ironic-overcloud.yaml , depending on the Networking service mechanism driver for your deployment. Note The order that you pass your environment files to the openstack overcloud deploy command is important, as the configuration in the later files takes precedence. Therefore, your environment file that enables and configures bare metal provisioning on your overcloud must be passed to the command after any network configuration files. 3.5. Testing the Bare Metal Provisioning service You can use the OpenStack Integration Test Suite to validate your Red Hat OpenStack deployment. For more information, see the Validating your cloud with the Red Hat OpenStack Platform Integration Test Suite . Additional verification methods for the Bare Metal Provisioning service: Configure the shell to access Identity as the administrative user: Check that the nova-compute service is running on the Controller nodes: If you changed the default ironic drivers, ensure that the required drivers are enabled: Ensure that the ironic endpoints are listed: 3.6. Additional resources Deployment command options in the Installing and managing Red Hat OpenStack Platform with director guide Configuring IPv6 networking for the overcloud Bare Metal (ironic) Parameters in the Overcloud parameters guide

Commands:
[stack@director ~]USD source ~/stackrc
network_config: - type: ovs_bridge name: br-baremetal use_dhcp: false members: - type: interface name: eth1 addresses: - ip_netmask: {{ ctlplane_ip }}/{{ ctlplane_subnet_cidr }}
parameter_defaults: NeutronBridgeMappings: datacentre:br-ex,baremetal:br-baremetal
parameter_defaults: NeutronBridgeMappings: datacentre:br-ex,baremetal:br-baremetal NeutronFlatNetworks: datacentre,baremetal
source ~/stackrc
(undercloud) [stack@host01 ~]USD cp /usr/share/openstack-tripleo-heat-templates/network_data.yaml /home/stack/templates/network_data.yaml
custom network for overcloud provisioning - name: OcProvisioning name_lower: oc_provisioning vip: true vlan: 205 ip_subnet: '<ipv4_subnet_address>/<ipv4_mask>' allocation_pools: [{'start': '<ipv4_start_address>', 'end': '<ipv4_end_address>'}]
ServiceNetMap: IronicApiNetwork: oc_provisioning IronicNetwork: oc_provisioning
network_config: - type: vlan vlan_id: get_param: OcProvisioningNetworkVlanID addresses: - ip_netmask: get_param: OcProvisioningIpSubnet
(undercloud) [stack@host01 ~]USD cp /usr/share/openstack-tripleo-heat-templates/roles_data.yaml /home/stack/templates/roles_data.yaml
networks: OcProvisioning: subnet: oc_provisioning_subnet
ServicesDefault: OS::TripleO::Services::IronicInspector
[stack@director ~]USD source ~/stackrc
(undercloud) [stack@host01 ~]USD cp /usr/share/openstack-tripleo-heat-templates/network_data.yaml /home/stack/templates/network_data.yaml
custom network for IPv6 overcloud provisioning - name: OcProvisioningIPv6 vip: true name_lower: oc_provisioning_ipv6 vlan: 10 ipv6: true ipv6_subnet: '<ipv6_subnet_address>/<ipv6_prefix>' ipv6_allocation_pools: [{'start': '<ipv6_start_address>', 'end': '<ipv6_end_address>'}] gateway_ipv6: '<ipv6_gw_address>'
touch /home/stack/templates/network_environment_overrides.yaml
ServiceNetMap: IronicApiNetwork: oc_provisioning_ipv6 IronicNetwork: oc_provisioning_ipv6
parameter_defaults: IronicIpVersion: 6
parameter_defaults: RabbitIPv6: True MysqlIPv6: True RedisIPv6: True
network_config: - type: vlan vlan_id: get_param: OcProvisioningIPv6NetworkVlanID addresses: - ip_netmask: get_param: OcProvisioningIPv6IpSubnet
(undercloud) [stack@host01 ~]USD cp /usr/share/openstack-tripleo-heat-templates/roles_data.yaml /home/stack/templates/roles_data.yaml
networks: - OcProvisioningIPv6
ServicesDefault: OS::TripleO::Services::IronicInspector
parameter_defaults: IronicCleaningDiskErase: <cleaning_type>
parameter_defaults: IronicEnabledHardwareTypes: ipmi,idrac,ilo,[additional_driver_1],...,[additional_driver_n]
parameter_defaults: IronicInspectorSubnets: - ip_range: <ip_range> IPAImageURLs: '["http://<ip_address>:<port>/agent.kernel", "http://<ip_address>:<port>/agent.ramdisk"]' IronicInspectorInterface: '<baremetal_interface>'
(undercloud)USD openstack overcloud deploy --templates -e [your environment files] -e /home/stack/templates/node-info.yaml -r /home/stack/templates/roles_data.yaml -e /usr/share/openstack-tripleo-heat-templates/network-environment.yaml -e /usr/share/openstack-tripleo-heat-templates/environments/services/<default_ironic_template> -e /usr/share/openstack-tripleo-heat-templates/environments/services/ironic-inspector.yaml -e /home/stack/templates/network_environment_overrides.yaml -n /home/stack/templates/network_data.yaml -e /home/stack/templates/ironic-overrides.yaml
source ~/overcloudrc
openstack compute service list -c Binary -c Host -c Status
openstack baremetal driver list
openstack catalog list