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Openstack Valence Project
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Valence is a service for lifecycle management of pooled bare-metal hardware
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infrastructure such as Intel(R) Rack Scale architecture which uses Redfish(TM)
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as one of the management protocols.
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:Free software: Apache license
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:Wiki: https://wiki.openstack.org/wiki/Valence
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:Source: http://git.openstack.org/cgit/openstack/valence
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:Bugs: https://bugs.launchpad.net/openstack-valence
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Download and Installation
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The following steps capture how to install valence. All installation steps
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require super user permissions.
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Database etcd installation
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Single node installation reference: https://github.com/coreos/etcd/releases
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Distributed installation reference: https://github.com/coreos/etcd/blob/master/Documentation/op-guide/clustering.md
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For development, single node installation is recommended practice.
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Valence installation
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1. Install software dependencies
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``$ sudo apt-get install git python-pip python-dev build-essential``
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2. Clone the Valence code from git repo.
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``$ git clone https://git.openstack.org/openstack/valence``
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3. Execute the 'install_valence.sh' file present in the Valence root directory.
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The install script will automatically install the dependencies listed in the
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requirements.txt file.
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``$ sudo bash install_valence.sh``
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4. Check the values in valence.conf located at /etc/valence/valence.conf
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``set the ip/credentials of podm for which this Valence will interact``
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5. Check the PYTHON_HOME and other variables in /etc/init/valence.conf
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6. Initialize etcd database
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``$ valence-db-manager init``
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Note: The TypeError exception "TypeError: NoneType object is not callable"
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is caused by known python-etcd bug, which will not impact this db init
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functionality.
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https://github.com/jplana/python-etcd/issues/190
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7. Start valence service
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``$ sudo service valence start``
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8. Logs are located at /var/logs/valence/
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GUI installation
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Please refer to the installation steps in the ui/README file.
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Components
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Valence follows the typical OpenStack project setup. The components are listed
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below:
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valence-api
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A python based daemon based on Flask framework to expose Valence REST APIs.
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The api service communicates to the PODM through REST interface using Redfish(TM) specification.
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For adding new api please refer https://github.com/openstack/valence/blob/master/doc/source/developer-guide/add_new_api.rst
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valence-ui
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valence-ui provides a Web-based GUI interface that can be used to explore
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Rack Scale Design (RSD) artifacts and compose/disassemble nodes.
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valence-ui is implemented using Node.js runtime environment and hosted through apache.
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valence-ui makes us of React.js javascript libaray and invoke Valence REST APIs through ajax REST calls.
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Features
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Please refer the Valence blueprints for supported and in-the-pipeline features.
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``https://blueprints.launchpad.net/openstack-valence``
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