Description

In Hack Week 23, we delivered a project called KubeBMC (renamed to KubeVirtBMC now), which brings the good old-fashioned IPMI ways to manage virtual machines running on KubeVirt-powered clusters. This opens the possibility of integrating existing bare-metal provisioning solutions like Tinkerbell with virtualized environments. We even received an inquiry about transferring the project to the KubeVirt organization. So, a proposal was filed, which was accepted by the KubeVirt community, and the project was renamed after that. We have many tasks on our to-do list. Some of them are administrative tasks; some are feature-related. One of the most requested features is Redfish support.

Goals

Extend the capability of KubeVirtBMC by adding Redfish support. Currently, the virtbmc component only exposes IPMI endpoints. We need to implement another simulator to expose Redfish endpoints, as we did with the IPMI module. We aim at a basic set of functionalities:

  • Power management
  • Boot device selection
  • Virtual media mount (this one is not so basic add-emoji )

Resources

Looking for hackers with the skills:

kubernetes redfish bare-metal virtualization

This project is part of:

Hack Week 24 Hack Week 23

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  • 4 months ago: cooper.tseng liked this project.
  • 4 months ago: cooper.tseng disliked this project.
  • 4 months ago: cooper.tseng liked this project.
  • 4 months ago: kieferchang liked this project.
  • 5 months ago: zchang started this project.
  • 5 months ago: vcheng liked this project.
  • 5 months ago: zchang added keyword "bare-metal" to this project.
  • 5 months ago: zchang added keyword "virtualization" to this project.
  • 5 months ago: zchang added keyword "kubernetes" to this project.
  • 5 months ago: zchang added keyword "redfish" to this project.
  • 5 months ago: zchang originated this project.

  • Comments

    • zchang
      4 months ago by zchang | Reply

      Here's the proof of work that has been done, though they are still considered immature. I will continue polishing them.

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