Provision Open Source Firmware system at scale

We will introduce concept to automatically provision OpenSource Firmware (starting from the BMC side) at scale within datacenter. That is a co-presentation between HPE and Scaleway a french cloud service provider

OpenBMC is a fast-rising Open Source project aiming to replace proprietary BMC firmware by a linux embedded software image, with the intent to be multi-platform vendors compatible. It is based on proven technologies, including D-BUS as inter process communication mechanism and library, and systemd to handle service management. The project is compliant with industry standard communication API like IPMI and Redfish. These technologies are focused on management tasks and lack critical features during system provisioning as to safely authenticate, and provision unknown new systems in a datacenter. We will introduce during this talk options which have been tested at Scaleway and could be integrated within OpenBMC running on HPE ProLiant machines or any other vendors. The process is broken in 3 major steps which will include system discovery, stepping logging and testing before entering production. Based on feedbacks we will specify the process for community review before submitting patches.