Create flavors for use with the Bare Metal service¶

You’ll need to create a special bare metal flavor in the Compute service. The flavor is mapped to the bare metal node through the hardware specifications.

1. Change these to match your hardware:

   $ RAM_MB=1024
   $ CPU=2
   $ DISK_GB=100
   $ ARCH={i686|x86_64}
   

2. Create the bare metal flavor by executing the following command:

   $ nova flavor-create my-baremetal-flavor auto $RAM_MB $DISK_GB $CPU
   

   Note

   You can replace auto with your own flavor id.

3. Set the architecture as extra_specs information of the flavor. This will be used to match against the properties of bare metal nodes:

   $ nova flavor-key my-baremetal-flavor set cpu_arch=$ARCH
   

4. Associate the deploy ramdisk and kernel images with the ironic node:

   $ ironic node-update $NODE_UUID add \
       driver_info/deploy_kernel=$DEPLOY_VMLINUZ_UUID \
       driver_info/deploy_ramdisk=$DEPLOY_INITRD_UUID