On-premise installation support

[stevendborrelli]

We are seeing increased requests for on-premise installations.Let's improve the bare-metal installation experience.

Please list features here, we'll break these out into feature issues:

• Support for corporate proxies
• Example Ansible inventory files (we can take from 0.2)
• ISO/Kickstart support

[benschumacher]

cc @pinireznik, re: ISO/Kickstart support

[mongrelion]

There has been some progress for on-premise installation on the Terraform providers for UCS and Cobbler.
Is this somehow related to what you're talking about, @stevendborrelli?

[stevendborrelli]

@mongrelion yes, we'd love to have UCS support.

We're also looking at plain ansible for deploying files onto a group of regular servers.

[navinSing]

so we are expecting microservice installation on bare-metal .. which means no need for openstack etc right.. i don't want to maintain openstack locally .. i don't see any benefit out of it..

+1 if that's the case ..

[muthumayan]

Openstack would still be needed for other infrastructure pieces like network segments and storage access for tenant micro-services.

so we are expecting microservice installation on bare-metal .. which means no need for openstack etc right.. i don't want to maintain openstack locally .. i don't see any benefit out of it.. +1 if that's the case .. —
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[stevendborrelli]

On bare metal, you won't need any of the networking parts for most of the functionality. The load balancers work best if you can set up a wildcard dns.

[muthumayan]

Perhaps i haven't conveyed my requirements correctly. Let me have a meeting with Neelesh and respond back.

[navinSing]

would definitely love to see the bare metal without openstack in 0.6.0
Thanks

[larry-svds]

I am looking for bare metal (set of Intel NUCs) in the offices, AWS for QA and Customer Prod. Just getting involved in Mantl. Been reading the Gitter from end of September. Amazing work. Ive looked at Paasta, Singularity, Panteras, etc and you folks are hard core. I'm learning a lot!

[navinSing]

any updates on this or its timeline

[larry-svds]

Looks like I have this working. I have a few questions for the experts and then I'll make my notes public for folks that want to do bare metal. There are just a few gotchas but relatively smooth. I did this on 8 Intel NUCs.

[navinSing]

awesome .. please share ==) the same

[ghost]

I have a bare metal deployment scenario as well. I have some servers I could test this on when available.

[larry-svds]

Hey @tonybecker would love to have someone test my instructions on an updated source before doing a pull request. There are a few gotchas. I am on the gitter app for this group. You can look at my instructions at https://github.com/larry-svds/microservices-infrastructure/blob/feature/bare-metal/bare-metal/README.md there are a few gotchas. But another person got through this in a very short time.

[langston-barrett]

We have a bare-metal README now, is there anything else we need?

[larry-svds]

The few gotchas are part of that README and the one change to sample.yml that was just merged in #1147 I think this issue is covered. My 2 cents.

[vanthome]

@siddharthist can you give a pointer, I cannot seem to find it in the docs.

[larry-svds]

@vanthome is this what you are looking for? https://github.com/CiscoCloud/mantl/tree/master/docs/bare-metal

[vanthome]

@larry-svds right, thaks!

[langston-barrett]

@vanthome #1254 will add them to the main documentation!