[Epic] Bare-Metal Infra Provider

[utkuozdemir]

Demo

• Start fresh Omni instance
• Create a service account key for the provider using omnictl
• Start the provider with correct set of flags and service account key in your subnet
• Boot your bare metal machines
• They pop up in Omni machines screen as "Pending Acceptance"
• Accept some machines
• Go and create a cluster using those machines
• Destroy the cluster
• Machines will be powered off

Phase 1

Bare-Metal Provider Tasks

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1. Compare Sidero Metal agent data collection with new agent #767
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2. Change the boot order: disk, then network. Use "one-time boot via network" over IPMI for that #761
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3. Implement power on/off #768
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4. Peer-review the provider code
5. Bare-Metal Infra Provider - make initial release (alpha) #769
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6. Bare-Metal Infra Provider: setup & usage documentation #770
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7. Bare-Metal Infra Provider: demo recording #771
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8. Talos 1.9.0 release
9. Bare-Metal Infra Provider: IPMI bug/freeze #785
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Omni UI Tasks

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1. UI: implement machine categories on the machines screen #766
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2. UI: implement machine acceptance #773
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3. UI: display powered off machines as powered off, not disconnected, allow adding them to clusters #774
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Phase 2

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1. Screen with the list of infra providers
2. Providers get heartbeat/health checks
3. Implement reboot
4. Add a reboot button to the UI
5. RedFish support (power on/off, PXE boot)
6. Implement cordoning of machines (hw maintenance): provider does not change the power state, does not mark it as "Ready To Use" etc.
7. When a powered off machine is added to a cluster, it displays the last phase of "shutting down" #796
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8. Do not preserve metal-agent extension when installing Talos to disk #797
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9. Ensure that secure boot is working
10. The machine gets powered off before Omni is able to collect it's status #798
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Phase X

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1. Provider logs & UI
2. Enable extensions automatically based on PCI devices (non-removable)
3. Global/matcher-based "Preferred Power State" configuration & UI
4. BMC console logs & UI