Ironic-at-home

Having quite a number of assorted servers, it would be nice to be able to do OS installation tasks automatically and in a consistent fashion across the board. There are many tools available to achieve this end, but being an OpenStack fan, I have decided to try out the OpenStack Ironic solution.

Now, being an OpenStack project, Ironic is dependent on a quite a few other OpenStack components. These include AMQP messaging (RabbitMQ), the OpenStack identity service (Keystone), as well as the OpenStack compute, network, block storage, and image services (Nova, Neutron, Cinder, and Glance)

All server state changes will be done by leveraging the existing Salt infrastructure.

What follows is a bit of a build-log of the Salt states for software installation and configuration. And maybe some diving into rabbit holes as we go...