Interesting docs links

• CAPM3 docs
• Metal3 book (very good)

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Testing / Observations

(List of states)

> kg bmh
NAME   STATE         CONSUMER   ONLINE   ERROR   AGE
r430   registering              true             4m48s

• Starts server to check things like disks (unavailable powered off).

• Boots on service ramdisk (downloaded by Ironic IPA - mounted from ironic server - not http server).

> kg bmh
NAME   STATE        CONSUMER   ONLINE   ERROR   AGE
r430   inspecting              true             5m59s

• Server available to be consumed

> kg bmh
NAME   STATE       CONSUMER   ONLINE   ERROR   AGE
r430   available              true             19m

• Manually turn off server

> kg bmh
NAME   STATE       CONSUMER   ONLINE   ERROR   AGE
r430   available              false             19m

• CAPM3 cluster created, bmh host consumed

> kg bmh
NAME   STATE         CONSUMER             ONLINE   ERROR   AGE
r430   provisioned   r430-cluster-59n5k   true             92m

• Image downloaded from http server and written to selected disk, then boot on it

• At the end the machine should be bootstrapped

> kgma
NAME                 CLUSTER        NODENAME   PROVIDERID                                                   PHASE     AGE   VERSION
r430-cluster-59n5k   r430-cluster   r430       metal3://baremetal-operator-system/r430/r430-cluster-59n5k   Running   20m   v1.31.3

• Delete machine/cluster CR. bareMetalHost goes into deprovisioning. Wipes disk etc...

Events:
  Type    Reason                  Age   From                         Message
  ----    ------                  ----  ----                         -------
  Normal  BMCAccessValidated      50m   metal3-baremetal-controller  Verified access to BMC
  Normal  ProvisioningStarted     41m   metal3-baremetal-controller  Image provisioning started for http://192.168.1.132:8008/ubuntu-2204-kube-v1.31.3.qcow2
  Normal  ProvisioningComplete    35m   metal3-baremetal-controller  Image provisioning completed for http://192.168.1.132:8008/ubuntu-2204-kube-v1.31.3.qcow2
  Normal  BMCAccessValidated      11m   metal3-baremetal-controller  Verified access to BMC
  Normal  DeprovisioningStarted   11m   metal3-baremetal-controller  Image deprovisioning started
  Normal  DeprovisioningComplete  55s   metal3-baremetal-controller  Image deprovisioning completed
  Normal  PowerOff                54s   metal3-baremetal-controller  Host soft powered off

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Triggering inspection after hardware change

• Add inspect.metal3.io: "" annotation to bareMetalHost CR.