Ironic

Add support of UEFI boot in Ironic

Registered by Wan-yen Hsu

This blueprint proposes to add UEFI boot for Ironic Deploy drivers:

- Add a new node property to indicate what boot modes are supported on the bare-metal node (e.g., UEFI, legacy or BIOS)
- Add boot-mode as a Nova flavor to enable selection of UEFI capable node.
- Changes in Ironic PXE Deploy driver
    - setting DHCP PXE options to UEFI
    - Configuring UEFI boot loader in CONF.pxe.pxe_boot_file_name
    - setting uefi boot mode and boot order
    - creating uefi boot config file
    - update_port_dhcp_opts needs to set boot file name to UEFI boot loader
- Changes in vendor-specific drivers are vendor dependent. Likely changes include setting uefi boot mode and boot order.

- DHCP server needs to configure to respond to UEFI options
- Create GPT if boot from local disk

Other changes including a new dib element may aslo be required to enable support of UEFI boot.

Blueprint information

Status:
Complete
Approver:
aeva black
Priority:
Medium
Drafter:
Wan-yen Hsu
Direction:
Needs approval
Assignee:
Wan-yen Hsu
Definition:
Approved
Series goal:
Accepted for juno
Implementation:
Implemented
Milestone target:
milestone icon 2014.2
Started by
aeva black
Completed by
aeva black

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Investigation started.

Please see the proposed changes in this etherpad for Nova Ironic driver, PXE and iLO deploy driver modules.
https://etherpad.openstack.org/p/IronicUEFISupport

- Faizan Barmawer

Gerrit topic: https://review.openstack.org/#q,topic:uefi-boot-for-ironic,n,z

Addressed by: https://review.openstack.org/99850
    UEFI support for Ironic deploy drivers

Patch implementing it: https://review.openstack.org/#/c/114357/

Gerrit topic: https://review.openstack.org/#q,topic:bp/uefi-boot-for-ironic,n,z

Addressed by: https://review.openstack.org/114357
    Add UEFI based deployment support in Ironic

Addressed by: https://review.openstack.org/116561
    Add uefi boot mode support in IloVirtualMediaIscsiDeploy.

Addressed by: https://review.openstack.org/118578
    Support for setting boot mode in pxe_ilo driver

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Granting feature freeze exception until September 12.
-Devananda
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Addressed by: https://review.openstack.org/127137
    Add documentation for PXE UEFI setup

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