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Redfish or Irrelevance?

DISCUSSION Stewart Smith 3 participants 3 messages Feb 11, 2016

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So, it seems that the standard RESTful API to BMCs is RedFish. With HP, Intel, Dell and others on board (with at least HP iLO shipping product).

There's already an OpenStack Ironic driver for Redfish and a bunch of other tooling.

It feels that not going this route would paint us into a corner of irrelevance and being the tricky platform to deal with.

See https://www.dmtf.org/standards/redfish

thoughts?

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Stewart Smith
OPAL Architect, IBM.
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There is no question that OpenBMC should support Redfish in the near
future. We were hoping someone outside might help implement Redfish as
OpenBMC got traction.

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Norman James
IBM - POWER Systems Architect
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From: Stewart Smith <[email protected]>
To: openbmc <[email protected]>
Date: 02/11/2016 01:14 AM
Subject: Redfish or Irrelevance?
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So, it seems that the standard RESTful API to BMCs is RedFish. With HP, Intel, Dell and others on board (with at least HP iLO shipping product).

There's already an OpenStack Ironic driver for Redfish and a bunch of other tooling.

It feels that not going this route would paint us into a corner of irrelevance and being the tricky platform to deal with.

See https://www.dmtf.org/standards/redfish

thoughts?
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Stewart Smith
OPAL Architect, IBM.

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Redfish is the way to go. We've talked a lot about it. Timing and knowledge was a couple of reasons why we down the proprietary path. As such we insured that while our rest interface was not redfish we did not make our implementation completely incompatible. I think we have learned a lot about redfish and rest and requirements since we started that shows it as winner. I think it is only a matter of time before we move. I think after April it should be the main focus.

Chris

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On Feb 11, 2016, 1:14:38 AM, "Stewart Smith" <[email protected]> wrote:

So, it seems that the standard RESTful API to BMCs is RedFish. With HP,
Intel, Dell and others on board (with at least HP iLO shipping product). There's already an OpenStack Ironic driver for Redfish and a bunch of other tooling.
It feels that not going this route would paint us into a corner of irrelevance and being the tricky platform to deal with.
See https://www.dmtf.org/standards/redfish
thoughts?
--
Stewart Smith
OPAL Architect, IBM.
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