Difference between revisions of "Nimble"
Yuntongjin (talk | contribs) (→FAQ) |
Yuntongjin (talk | contribs) (→FAQ) |
||
| Line 68: | Line 68: | ||
= FAQ = | = FAQ = | ||
| − | # What's the relationship with Nimble and Nova？ | + | # What's the relationship with Nimble and Nova？ Nimble is aim to provide bare metal orchestration. |
| − | + | # What's the relationship with Nimble and Ironic？ Ironic is integrated into Nimble as a engine, which will be use to deploy(part of provisioning) baremetal node. And also Nimble leverage Ironic API to manage node’s lifecycle. | |
| − | # What's the relationship with Nimble and Ironic？ | + | # What's the relationship with Nimble and Valence？ VALENCE is a RSD controller for Pooled and composable resources, |
| − | Ironic is integrated into Nimble as a engine, which will be use to deploy(part of provisioning) baremetal node. | ||
| − | And also Nimble leverage Ironic API to manage node’s lifecycle. | ||
| − | |||
| − | # What's the relationship with Nimble and Valence？ | ||
| − | VALENCE is a RSD controller for Pooled and composable resources, | ||
it provide compose API for pooled resource, and also Redfish endpoint to control composed node that used by nimble. | it provide compose API for pooled resource, and also Redfish endpoint to control composed node that used by nimble. | ||
| − | + | For example if a particular flavor system is requested which maps to a RSD system, such a call should go to nimble which subsequently VALENCE to provide that node. | |
| + | and nimble will enroll that node to ironic and provisioning the node with ironic. | ||
== References == | == References == | ||
Revision as of 09:27, 12 October 2016
Contents
OpenStack Bare Metal Computing
Nimble aims to separate bare metal computing management from Nova, which is designed specifically for BMs, so we can provide a more lightweight and convenient platform with more advanced features by leveraging Ironic. Besides this, we also plan to support RSD(Rack Scale Design), so we can not only provide Pre-set Configuration Servers but also Custom Servers.
Nimble Mission Statement
To implement a service which focuses on the management of bare metal computing resources.
What is Nimble?
The figure below describes how Nimble interact with other OpenStack services to manage bare metal servers.
Why Nimble?
Ironic only provides the capability to provision bare metal servers, which lacks scheduling ability and multitenancy support. Currently it is highly depends on Nova
Use Cases
- NFV uses wants to orchestration and provisioning bare metal , with multi tenancy support.
- An enterprise user would like to float a cloud sourcing hardware within a datacenter, nimble will orchestrate RSD hardware resource to meet this requirement.
- An enterprise operator want to inventory all the physic assets, model the physic datacenter arch, mapping into a object model to help him manage physic assets, scheduling and optimize within datacenter.
RSD Integration
Rack Scale Design (RSD) implementations represent the next generation of Software Defined Infrastructure that can be dynamically provisioned across compute, network and storage resources.The fundamental premise for an RSA-based solution is the customers’ ability to “right-size” their endto-end infrastructure needs according to anticipated workload performance and capacity requirements, across pooled resources.
VALENCE is a controller for Pooled and composable resources which adhere to DMTF[1] Redfish[2] with hardware management requests. That includes provisioning and management of RSD components and underlay features.
Projects
nimble
| Source code | https://github.com/openstack/nimble |
| Bug tracker | https://bugs.launchpad.net/nimble |
| Feature tracker | https://blueprints.launchpad.net/nimble |
python-nimbleclient
| Source code | https://github.com/openstack/python-nimbleclient |
| Bug tracker | https://bugs.launchpad.net/python-nimbleclient |
| Feature tracker | https://blueprints.launchpad.net/python-nimbleclient |
People
Zhenguo Niu (zhenguo)
Rui Chen (RuiChen)
YunTong Jin (yuntong.jin@intel.com)
Shaohe Feng (shaohe_feng)
IRC
Discussion of the project also takes place in #openstack-nimble on irc.freenode.net. This is a great place to jump in and start your nimble adventure.
FAQ
- What's the relationship with Nimble and Nova？ Nimble is aim to provide bare metal orchestration.
- What's the relationship with Nimble and Ironic？ Ironic is integrated into Nimble as a engine, which will be use to deploy(part of provisioning) baremetal node. And also Nimble leverage Ironic API to manage node’s lifecycle.
- What's the relationship with Nimble and Valence？ VALENCE is a RSD controller for Pooled and composable resources,
it provide compose API for pooled resource, and also Redfish endpoint to control composed node that used by nimble. For example if a particular flavor system is requested which maps to a RSD system, such a call should go to nimble which subsequently VALENCE to provide that node. and nimble will enroll that node to ironic and provisioning the node with ironic.
References
[1] https://www.dmtf.org/standards/redfish
