Bare Metal Node States¶

enroll¶

With recent versions of the bare metal API (starting with 1.11), nodes begin their life in a state called enroll. Nodes in this state are not available for deployment, nor for most of other actions. Ironic does not touch such nodes in any way.

Starting with the Newton release, TripleO node registration command allows to import nodes in this state instead of the default available. To do so pass the option --initial-state=enroll:

openstack baremetal import --initial-state=enroll instackenv.json

Then move the nodes to manageable state and eventually to available.

manageable¶

To make nodes alive an operator uses manage provisioning action to move nodes to manageable state. During this transition the power and management credentials (IPMI, SSH, etc) are validated to ensure that nodes in manageable state are actually manageable by Ironic. This state is still not available for deployment. With nodes in this state an operator can execute various pre-deployment actions, such as introspection, RAID configuration, etc. So to sum it up, nodes in manageable state are being configured before exposing them into the cloud.

Nodes get into manageable state automatically. The manage action can be used to bring nodes already moved to available state back to manageable for configuration:

ironic node-set-provision-state <NAME OR UUID> manage

available¶

The last step before the deployment is to make nodes available using the provide provisioning action. Such nodes are exposed to nova, and can be deployed to at any moment. No long-running configuration actions should be run in this state.

ironic node-set-provision-state <NAME OR UUID> provide