Hardware Isolation Layer (HIL) / Bare Metal Imaging (BMI)

Overview

• HIL and BMI are fundamental for elastic hardware deployments.
• They allow us to rapidly shrink or grow a cluster, enabling different teams from RedHat and BU to share hardware (or resize their cluster) without worrying about the hassle of setting up their cluster every-time they switch.
• Ansible Networking lacks a thin, stateful API for operators who want to use it for ongoing management of their networks. HIL can leverage the networking automation capabilities of Ansible and provide a useful set of APIs.
• By interfacing Foreman with BMI we can do disk-full and disk-less bare metal provisioning quickly.

For more information, please visit project pages for Hardware Isolation Layer (HIL) and Bare Metal Imaging (BMI).