Airship is an OSF incubator project for taking infrastructure from bare metal to container orchestration to cloud, using a uniform set of declarative YAML documents.
Airship in turn has a YAML-driven, pluggable bare metal provisioning API called Drydock. The initial driver for Drydock uses MaaS for provisioning, but there was substantial interest at the PTG in adding an Ironic driver as well. In addition, there was a desire to enhance Drydock to natively support "bring your own provisioned OS" type scenarios.
The purpose of this forum is to
1. Discuss the capabilities/use cases of Drydock using an Ironic plugin, and talk through any anticipated challenges
2. Guage interest in additional bare metal provisioning technologies, e.g. Luna
3. Understand the range of operator needs around declarative bare metal provisioning, see whether Airship is a good fit, and invite additional folks to collaborate
Each operator is a snowflake, and brings different use cases, requirements, and operational experience to their cloud deployment. Airship is intended to make it seamless to integrate a collection of containerized platform components, and to manage their Day 1 and 2 operations in an automated way via a library of YAML documents. Since bare metal provisioning varies widely from one operator to the next, it's important to the direction of Airship that the range of operator needs be discussed and factored into the project roadmap.
