From 9bd436e40ebfe50bfb67eec801774541f191b667 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Julia Kreger Date: Thu, 2 Jul 2015 17:47:22 -0400 Subject: [PATCH] Update README for simple-init/glean Change-Id: I27d59a5973c23f098b433b0de760857027c8e7bc Partial-Bug: 1463191 --- README.rst | 13 ++++++++++--- 1 file changed, 10 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-) diff --git a/README.rst b/README.rst index 75debc0cc..fe99447ab 100644 --- a/README.rst +++ b/README.rst @@ -342,7 +342,14 @@ will use this key to connect to the host machine and run virsh commands. #. Run the enrollment step, as documented above, using the CSV file you created in the previous step. #. Run the deployment step, as documented above. -Future Support -============== +Network/SSH key configuration for RedHat/Centos +=============================================== -* Config drive network_info.json - Bifrost will automatically place a json structured file which is intended to replace the direct placement of a ``/etc/network/interfaces`` file. This will ultimately allow for more complex user defined networking as well as greater compatibility with other Linux distributions. At present, the diskimage-builder element ``simple-init`` can be used to facilitate this. +Bifrost places a file in the configuration drive named network_info.json that +can be read/parsed by the `glean ` +utility. This has greater compatibility for network configuration, however +any physical servers connected should be connected to switches configured such +that the network ports immediately go into a forwarding state. + +In order to activate use of glean, you will want to utilize disk images +built with the diskimage-builder ``simple-init`` element.