ironic/doc/source/contributor/deploy-steps.rst
Dmitry Tantsur e85a36fe36 Deploy interface that fully relies on custom deploy steps
This change adds a new deploy-interface custom-agent that is essentially
the direct deploy without the write_image step and without bootloader
handling. It's targeted at deployments that need to write the image
differently, while keeping all other aspects the same.

The existing AgentDeploy becomes a subclass of the new CustomAgentDeploy
class, serving as a convenient base class for downstream deploy
interfaces that use IPA.

Change-Id: Ie126ce677c79f102e382305650bddb7f09834483
Story: #2008719
Task: #42059
2021-04-30 14:38:16 +02:00

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Developing a new Deploy Step
============================
To support customized deployment step, implement a new method in an interface
class and use the decorator ``deploy_step`` defined in
``ironic/drivers/base.py``. For example, we will implement a ``do_nothing``
deploy step in the ``AgentDeploy`` class.
.. code-block:: python
from ironic.drivers.modules import agent
class AgentDeploy(agent.AgentDeploy):
@base.deploy_step(priority=200, argsinfo={
'test_arg': {
'description': (
"This is a test argument."
),
'required': True
}
})
def do_nothing(self, task, **kwargs):
return None
If you want to completely replace the deployment procedure, but still have the
agent up and running, inherit ``CustomAgentDeploy``:
.. code-block:: python
from ironic.drivers.modules import agent
class AgentDeploy(agent.CustomAgentDeploy):
def validate(self, task):
super().validate(task)
# ... custom validation
@base.deploy_step(priority=80)
def my_write_image(self, task, **kwargs):
pass # ... custom image writing
@base.deploy_step(priority=70)
def my_configure_bootloader(self, task, **kwargs):
pass # ... custom bootloader configuration
After deployment of the baremetal node, check the updated deploy steps::
baremetal node show $node_ident -f json -c driver_internal_info
The above command outputs the ``driver_internal_info`` as following::
{
"driver_internal_info": {
...
"deploy_steps": [
{
"priority": 200,
"interface": "deploy",
"step": "do_nothing",
"argsinfo":
{
"test_arg":
{
"required": True,
"description": "This is a test argument."
}
}
},
{
"priority": 100,
"interface": "deploy",
"step": "deploy",
"argsinfo": null
}
],
"deploy_step_index": 1
}
}
.. note::
Similarly, clean steps can be implemented using the ``clean_step``
decorator.
In-band deploy steps (deploy steps that are run inside the ramdisk) have to be
implemented in a custom :ironic-python-agent-doc:`IPA hardware manager
<contributor/hardware_managers.html#custom-hardwaremanagers-and-deploying>`.
All in-band deploy steps must have priorities between 41 and 99, see
:ref:`node-deployment-core-steps` for details.