metalbox

Installation

1. Download the Metalbox image from the well known URL. Use the file as virtual media (vHDD).
2. Download the small Grml live ISO file. Use the file as virtual media (vDVD) and boot it.
3. Write the Metalbox image with dd if=/dev/sdc of=/dev/sda bs=4M status=progress to the first disk. Afterwards power off the node, remove all virtual media devices and power on the node again.
4. Export the NetBox configuration repository with netbox-manager export-archive -i. When using a NetBox configuration repository provided by us, the file can be downloaded from GitHub after a trigger of the Run export action. Use the file as virtual media (vHDD) and run netbox-import.sh. Afterwards remove the virtual media (vHDD).
5. Run deploy-netbox.sh to deploy the NetBox service.
6. Run netbox-manage.sh to initialise the NetBox service.
7. Set the managed site by running netbox-site.sh SITE (replace SITE with the slug name of the site managed by this Metalbox)
8. Run deploy-manager.sh to deploy the OSISM manager service.
9. Run osism sync inventory to sync the inventory
10. Run osism apply hosts to sync the /etc/hosts file
11. Run osism apply network to sync the network configuration
12. Run osism apply facts to sync the facts
13. Run osism apply chrony to sync the NTP configuration
14. Download the SONiC export image from the well known URL. Use the file as virtual media (vHDD).
15. Run deploy-sonic.sh to deploy the SONiC ZTP services. Afterwards remove the virtual media (vHDD).
16. Run deploy-infrastructure.sh to deploy the infrastructure services
17. Run deploy-openstack.sh to Deploy the OpenStack services
18. Run osism apply -e custom ironic-upload-images to upload required Ironic image files
19. Run osism sync ironic to sync the baremetal nodes

Update of the container registry

1. Download registry.tar.bz2 from https://swift.services.a.regiocloud.tech/swift/v1/AUTH_b182637428444b9aa302bb8d5a5a418c/metalbox/registry.tar.bz2
2. Copy registry.tar.bz2 to /home/dragon on the Metalbox node
3. Run SKIP_DOWNLOAD=true update-registry.sh to update the container registry

Update of the NetBox data

1. Export the NetBox configuration repository with netbox-manager export-archive -i. When using a NetBox configuration repository provided by us, the file can be downloaded from GitHub after a trigger of the Run export action. Copy netbox-export.img to /home/dragon on the Metalbox node
2. Run mount-images.sh to mount the netbox-export.img image
3. Run netbox-import.sh to sync the files in /opt/configuration/netbox
4. Run unmount-images.sh to unmount the netbox-export.img image
5. Run netbox-manage.sh to sync netbox with the state in /opt/configuration/netbox

Service updates

Update of the manager service

1. Run update-manager.sh to update the manager service

Update of the NetBox service

1. Run update-netbox.sh to update the NetBox service

Update of the infrastructure services

1. Run update-infrastructure.sh to update the infrastructure services

Update of the OpenStack services

1. Run update-openstack.sh to update the OpenStack services