Metal3 DHCP less provisioning
Using virtual media for bare-metal node provisioning should allow to avoid the DHCP step which is inherited from PXE boot method. Having to configure a DHCP server and the related network and security context make the BareMetal provisioning design really complex, it can be avoided since the target is to rely on VirtualMedia within Sylva.
A discussion about this feature on the slack channel dedicated to Cluster-API-Baremetal, sum up the situation (see [1]):
- We can use the mechanism in place for Openshift. With a dedicated controller and one image per BaremetalHost. See [2][3][4]. A custom controller need to be implemented, i'm not sure the one used by Openshift is publicly available.
- We can use the same solution as the used in Das Shiff, with a generic IPA image, and pass the networking config as a kernel boot parameter
- We can use a DHCP-less feature available in Ironic, with a related patch in the baremetal_host controller.
Related references
[1] https://kubernetes.slack.com/archives/CHD49TLE7/p1683296786637449
[3] https://github.com/metal3-io/baremetal-operator/pull/936
Edited by Mathieu Rohon