tripleo-docs/doc/source/install/advanced_deployment/node_states.rst

Bare Metal Node States

This document provides a brief explanation of the bare metal node states that TripleO uses or might use. Please refer to the Ironic documentation for more details.

enroll

With recent versions of the bare metal API (starting with 1.11), nodes begin their life in a state called enroll. Nodes in this state are not available for deployment, nor for most of other actions. Ironic does not touch such nodes in any way.

Starting with the Newton release, TripleO node registration command allows to import nodes in this state instead of the default available. To do so pass the option --initial-state=enroll:

openstack baremetal import --initial-state=enroll instackenv.json

Then move the nodes to manageable state and eventually to available.

manageable

To make nodes alive an operator uses manage provisioning action to move nodes to manageable state. During this transition the power and management credentials (IPMI, SSH, etc) are validated to ensure that nodes in manageable state are actually manageable by Ironic. This state is still not available for deployment. With nodes in this state an operator can execute various pre-deployment actions, such as introspection, RAID configuration, etc. So to sum it up, nodes in manageable state are being configured before exposing them into the cloud.

Nodes get into manageable state automatically. The manage action can be used to bring nodes already moved to available state back to manageable for configuration:

openstack baremetal node manage <NAME OR UUID>

available

The last step before the deployment is to make nodes available using the provide provisioning action. Such nodes are exposed to nova, and can be deployed to at any moment. No long-running configuration actions should be run in this state.

Note

The TripleO introspection command openstack baremetal introspection bulk start moves available nodes to manageable state automatically before and moves them back after a successful introspection. However, nodes which failed introspection stay in manageable state and must be reintrospected or made available manually:

openstack baremetal node provide <NAME OR UUID>