OpenStack Mitaka Design Summit

Magnum is designed to offer a choice of compute instance types to run bays, including Virtual Machines, Bare Metal, and even Containers from libvirt/lxc. Our main templates create VM instances, and we have templates that are designed to work with ironic bare metal instances as well. there are some challenges with bare metal instances that make it more difficult for them to securely join Neutron networks and use Cinder storage volumes. This is because working with these services requires that the control plane can be accessed by the host, which it normally can not be. In this session we will highlight these differences and explain which issues are unique to irnoic, and which are challenges for Magnum.