Bug 1330247

Summary: [RFE] ironic rescue mode for overcloud nodes
Product: Red Hat OpenStack Reporter: Dan Yocum <dyocum>
Component: openstack-ironicAssignee: Dmitry Tantsur <dtantsur>
Status: CLOSED WONTFIX QA Contact: mlammon
Severity: medium Docs Contact:
Priority: low    
Version: 8.0 (Liberty)CC: achernet, bfournie, dsneddon, dtantsur, kbasil, mburns, mlammon, racedoro, rhel-osp-director-maint, sclewis, srevivo
Target Milestone: Upstream M2Keywords: FutureFeature, TechPreview, Triaged
Target Release: 15.0 (Stein)   
Hardware: All   
OS: Linux   
URL: http://specs.openstack.org/openstack/ironic-specs/specs/approved/implement-rescue-mode.html
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: 1677769 (view as bug list) Environment:
Last Closed: 2019-06-26 10:56:20 UTC Type: Bug
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Bug Depends On: 1399440, 1446522    
Bug Blocks: 1677769    

Description Dan Yocum 2016-04-25 17:49:18 UTC
Description of problem:

I would like a way to use ironic to pxeboot an overcloud system into "rescue" mode to do basic things like inspect hardware manually, create gpt partitions, create md devices, etc.

Comment 3 Dan Sneddon 2016-12-21 08:28:46 UTC
(In reply to Dmitry Tantsur from comment #2)
> Upstream spec:
> http://specs.openstack.org/openstack/ironic-specs/specs/approved/implement-
> rescue-mode.html

Upstream review posted: https://review.openstack.org/#/c/407236/

Comment 4 Dmitry Tantsur 2017-01-06 16:51:07 UTC
This feature is actively worked on mostly by contributors outside of Red Hat. Leaving Lucas assigned just for tracking.

Comment 6 Dmitry Tantsur 2017-01-11 11:51:17 UTC
Upstream patches: https://review.openstack.org/#/q/topic:bug/1526449. Not making it into Ocata, apparently.

Comment 7 Ramon Acedo 2017-08-10 09:45:07 UTC
Is the spec initially tracked initially here still valid?
 https://review.openstack.org/#/c/407236/

Comment 8 Dmitry Tantsur 2017-08-10 10:46:26 UTC
Yep

Comment 10 Ramon Acedo 2017-11-02 16:03:48 UTC
Hi Dmitry, does the rescue mode need TripleO integration (rescue image or other changes)? If it does, is it still reasonable to target this to OSP 13 or should we consider it now for OSP 14?

Comment 11 Dmitry Tantsur 2017-11-02 17:05:34 UTC
Indeed, it requires updating our IPA image to support rescue. Given the bandwidth, I'd really move it to 14.