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The launchpad bug reporting link earlier was https://bugs.launchpad.net/plasma now it has been changed to https://bugs.launchpad.net/openstack-valence Change-Id: I84b60a62ceb0d2a1d01cd30f2c18d7d8cfad4645 Closes-Bug: #1650495
Openstack Valence Project
Valence is a service for lifecycle management of pooled bare-metal hardware infrastructure such as Intel(R) Rack Scale architecture which uses Redfish(TM) as one of the management protocols.
- Free software
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Apache license
- Wiki
- Source
- Bugs
Download and Installation
The following steps capture how to install valence. All installation steps require super user permissions.
Valence installation
Install software dependencies
$ sudo apt-get install git python-pipClone the Valence code from git repo.
$ git clone https://git.openstack.org/openstack/valence3. Execute the 'install_valence.sh' file present in the Valence root directory. The install script will automatically install the dependencies listed in the requirements.txt file.
$ sudo bash install_valence.sh
Check the values in valence.conf located at /etc/valence/valence.conf
set the ip/credentials of podm for which this Valence will interactCheck the PYTHON_HOME and other variables in /etc/init/valence.conf
Start valence service
$ sudo service valence startLogs are located at /var/logs/valence/
GUI installation
Please refer to the installation steps in the ui/README file.
Components
Valence follows the typical OpenStack project setup. The components are listed below:
valence-api
A pecan based daemon to expose Valence REST APIs. The api service communicates to the controller through AMQP.
valence-controller --------------The controller implements all the handlers for valence-api. It reads requests from the AMQP queue, process it and send the reponse back to the caller.
valence-ui --------valence-ui provides a GUI interface to invoke Valence APIs.
Features
Please refer the Valence blueprints for supported and in-the-pipeline
features.
https://blueprints.launchpad.net/openstack-valence