Baremetal Server Management with Redfish (denog17)

Managing bare metal servers has always been quite time-consuming and prone to errors. Manual steps are required to configure the BMC, adjust BIOS settings, and, if necessary, perform firmware updates. If you have many servers to manage, you have to repeat everything on each individual server which likely to cause errors and diverging configurations. We have been working for some time to automate all of this with Redfish. OpenStack Ironic helps with this, among other things, but it does not work out-of-the-box with all hardware. Unfortunately, most manufacturers believe that the Redfish standard should be implemented differently or some endpoints are not necessary. In this talk, I will provide insight into the experience we have gained, how far we are currently, and what we still have planned. Licensed to the public under http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0 about this event: https://pretalx.com/denog17/talk/79G7TQ/