TWI786766B - Bare device deploying method, electronic device, and storage medium - Google Patents

Abstract

A bare device deploying method, an electronic device, and a storage medium are provided. The method includes: turning on a bare device to be deployed, and assigning an IP address to the bare device; downloading a deploy image to the bare device based on the IP address, and obtaining hardware information of the bare device based on the deploy image; determining services that the bare device is required to provide according to a preset bare device deploy strategy and the hardware information of the bare device; generating a system image based on the determined services, and transmitting the system image to the bare device for system deploying.

Description

Bare metal deployment method, electronic device and storage medium

The present application relates to the technical field of server management, and in particular to a bare-metal deployment method, an electronic device, and a storage medium.

With the development of computer technology, edge computing platforms are increasingly used in various technical fields, such as AI recognition. OpenStack provides a development and management solution for the edge computing platform, and can deploy bare metal according to the user's business needs. However, when OpenStack deploys bare metal, users need to pre-configure bare metal kernel, memory file system, operating system image and other information, and the pre-configured information is relatively fixed, which leads to low configuration efficiency of bare metal. And lack of flexibility.

In view of this, it is necessary to provide a bare metal deployment method, an electronic device and a storage medium, which can automatically perform system deployment on the bare metal according to the hardware information of the bare metal.

This application provides a bare metal deployment method, the method comprising:

Turn on at least one bare metal of the system to be deployed, and assign an IP address to the bare metal;

downloading a deployment image to the bare metal based on the IP address, and obtaining hardware information of the bare metal based on the deployment image;

Determine the services to be provided by the bare metal according to the default bare metal deployment strategy and the hardware information of the bare metal;

A system image is generated according to the services to be provided by the bare metal, and the system image is sent to the bare metal for system deployment on the bare metal.

Optionally, the preset bare metal deployment strategy includes a correspondence between hardware types or hardware attributes included in the bare metal, services to be provided by the bare metal, and system image configuration files.

Optionally, the hardware information includes the hardware type and/or hardware attributes, and the services to be provided by the bare metal are determined according to the preset bare metal deployment strategy and the hardware information of the bare metal include:

If the hardware type contained in the bare metal includes at least an AI acceleration chip, it is determined according to the preset bare metal deployment strategy that the services to be provided by the bare metal corresponding to the AI acceleration chip include at least deep learning reasoning Serve;

If the hardware type contained in the bare metal includes at least a GPU, it is determined according to the preset bare metal deployment strategy that the services to be provided by the bare metal corresponding to the GPU include at least deep learning training services;

If the hardware type contained in the bare metal includes at least a sensor, according to the preset bare metal deployment strategy, it is determined that the services to be provided by the bare metal corresponding to the sensor include at least sensing data acquisition Serve.

Optionally, the method also includes:

Detect in real time whether the hardware information of the bare metal that has completed the system deployment has changed;

When it is detected that the hardware information of the bare metal has changed, re-determining the services to be provided by the bare metal;

Re-deploy the bare metal according to the re-determined services to be provided by the bare metal.

Optionally, said enabling the bare metal of the system to be deployed, and assigning an IP address to the bare metal includes:

The bare metal of the system to be deployed is enabled by an IPMI command, the IP address of the TFTP service is obtained based on the DHCP service, and the IP address is allocated to the bare metal.

Optionally, the method also includes:

Detecting whether at least one bare metal device is newly added to communicate with the electronic device every preset time;

If it is detected that the at least one bare machine is newly added to communicate with the electronic device, the at least one bare machine is turned on.

Optionally, downloading the deployment image to the bare metal based on the IP address, and obtaining hardware information of the bare metal based on the deployment image includes:

downloading the hardware information collection program in the deployment image to the bare metal, and controlling the bare metal to start the hardware information collection program to collect the hardware information.

Optionally, the generating a system image according to the services to be provided by the bare metal includes:

generating a service configuration file according to the services to be provided by the bare metal;

The system image is generated according to the basic configuration file and the service configuration file, wherein the basic configuration file at least includes a kernel, a memory file system and an operating system.

The present application also provides an electronic device, including:

processor; and

A memory, wherein a plurality of program modules are stored in the memory, and the plurality of program modules are loaded by the processor to execute the above bare metal deployment method.

The present application also provides a computer-readable storage medium, on which at least one computer instruction is stored, and the instruction is loaded by a processor to execute the above bare-metal deployment method.

The above bare metal deployment method, electronic device and storage medium can automatically perform system deployment on the bare metal according to the hardware information of the bare metal, which improves the deployment efficiency of the bare metal and provides flexible settings for the bare metal system.

In order to more clearly understand the above objects, features and advantages of the present application, the present application will be described in detail below in conjunction with the accompanying drawings and specific embodiments. It should be noted that, in the case of no conflict, the embodiments of the present application and the features in the embodiments can be combined with each other.

A lot of specific details are set forth in the following description to facilitate a full understanding of the application, and the described embodiments are only a part of the embodiments of the application, rather than all the embodiments. Based on the embodiments in this application, all other embodiments obtained by persons of ordinary skill in the art without making creative efforts belong to the scope of protection of this application.

Unless otherwise defined, all technical and scientific terms used herein have the same meaning as commonly understood by one of ordinary skill in the technical field to which this application belongs. The terms used herein in the specification of the application are only for the purpose of describing specific embodiments, and are not intended to limit the application.

Please refer to FIG. 1 , which is a schematic diagram of an application environment architecture of a bare-metal deployment method provided by a preferred embodiment of the present application.

The bare metal deployment method in this application is applied in an electronic device 1 , and the electronic device 1 establishes a communication connection with a plurality of bare metal 2 through a network. The network may be a wired network, such as an industrial bus, or a wireless network, such as radio, wireless fidelity (Wireless Fidelity, WIFI), cellular, satellite, broadcast, and the like. The cellular network can be a 4G network or a 5G network.

The electronic device 1 may be an electronic device installed with a bare-metal deployment program, such as a personal computer, a server, etc., wherein the server may be a single server, a server cluster, or the like. In one embodiment, the electronic device 1 is an OpenStack-based cloud management server.

The bare metal 2 can also be a personal computer, a server, and the like. In one embodiment, the bare metal 2 includes, but is not limited to, a power controller 201 , a memory 202 , a hard disk 203 and a CPU 204 (as shown in FIG. 3 ).

Please refer to FIG. 2 , which is a flowchart of a bare-metal deployment method provided by a preferred implementation manner of this application. According to different requirements, the order of the steps in the flowchart can be changed, and some steps can be omitted.

Optionally, in one embodiment, it is detected whether at least one bare metal device 2 that is communicatively connected to the electronic device 1 is added every preset time. When it is detected that the at least one bare metal 2 newly added to communicate with the electronic device 1, the process enters into S201. Optionally, the preset time may be one hour.

In one embodiment, the electronic device 1 is applied in an edge server cluster for managing multiple edge servers. The electronic device 1 includes a registry for recording the edge server of the communication connection. When the bare metal 2 joins the edge server cluster, in addition to being connected to the electronic device 1 through the network, registration information needs to be stored in the registry through the network. The registration information may be device identification, MAC address and so on. If the registration information is newly added to the registry, it is determined that the bare metal 2 newly added to the electronic device 1 is detected.

S201, turn on the bare metal 2 of the system to be deployed, and assign an IP address to the bare metal 2.

In one embodiment, the bare metal of the system to be deployed is opened by an IPMI (Intelligent Platform Management Interface) command, and the TFTP (Trivial File Transfer Protocol, Simple File Transfer Protocol) service assigns an IP address, and assigns the IP address to the bare metal 2 .

Please refer to FIG. 3 , in one embodiment, the electronic device 1 is an OpenStack architecture, including Ironic Conductor service, DHCP service, TFTP service and deployment policy service. If the electronic device 1 is a single server, the above services may be modules integrated in the electronic device 1 . If the electronic device 1 is a server cluster, the above-mentioned services are provided by the servers respectively.

Specifically, the electronic device 1 sends the IPMI command to the power controller 201 of the bare metal 2 through the Ironic Conductor service, and the bare metal 2 of the system to be deployed is turned on by the power controller 201 .

In one embodiment, the DHCP service module is used to manage the IP address of each service module in the electronic device 1 and the computer connected to the electronic device 1 in communication. The DHCP service module is used to receive the IP address request message of the bare metal 2, check whether the MAC address of the network card of the bare metal 2 is legal, and return the IP address to the bare metal 2 if legal. . Wherein, the bare metal 2 can establish a communication connection with the TFTP service module through the IP address.

In one embodiment, the DHCP service module can check the legitimacy of the MAC address of the bare metal 2 through a regular matching method. For example, the formula used by the regular matching method is ^([A-Fa-f0-9]{2}[-,:]){5}[A-Fa-f0-9]{2}$.

S202. Download a deployment image to the bare metal based on the IP address, and acquire hardware information of the bare metal 2 based on the deployment image.

In one embodiment, the TFTP service is used to manage files of the electronic device 1 , including downloading files, configuring files, transferring files, and so on. The electronic device 1 receives a request message for obtaining a deployment image sent by the bare metal 2 through the TFTP service, and sends the deployment image to the bare metal 2 in response to the request message.

In one embodiment, the electronic device 1 can manage the system deployment process of the bare metal 2 through the deployment image, for example, monitor the progress and status of the system deployment. The deployment image includes at least a hardware information collection program. Download the hardware information collection program in the deployment image to the bare metal 2, and control the bare metal 2 to start the hardware information collection program to collect hardware information contained in the bare metal 2. Wherein, the hardware information includes hardware type and/or hardware attribute. For example, the hardware type includes memory, hard disk, CPU, etc., and the hardware attribute includes memory capacity, hard disk capacity, number of CPU cores, and the like. In other implementations, the bare metal 2 may also be pre-installed with a hardware information collection program, and when the deployment image is installed on the bare metal 2, the bare metal 2 automatically starts the hardware information collection program to collect Hardware information.

S203. Determine the services to be provided by the bare metal according to the preset bare metal deployment strategy and the hardware information of the bare metal 2.

In one embodiment, the preset bare metal deployment strategy includes the hardware type or hardware attributes contained in the bare metal, the correspondence between the services provided by the bare metal, and the system image profile. For example, the service provided by the AI accelerator chip corresponding to the bare metal is the inference service of deep learning, and the corresponding system image configuration file includes the basic configuration file and the inference service configuration file.

In one embodiment, when the hardware type of the bare metal 2 includes at least an AI acceleration chip, the deployment strategy service determines the bare metal corresponding to the AI acceleration chip according to the preset bare metal deployment strategy. The services to be provided by machine 2 include at least the inference service of deep learning. When the hardware type of the bare metal 2 includes at least a GPU, the deployment strategy service determines that the services to be provided by the bare metal 2 corresponding to the GPU include at least deep learning according to the preset bare metal deployment strategy training services. When the hardware type of the bare metal 2 includes at least a sensor, the deployment policy service determines the service to be provided by the bare metal 2 corresponding to the sensor according to the preset bare metal deployment strategy At least including sensing data acquisition services.

S204. Generate a system image according to the services to be provided by the bare metal 2, and send the system image to the bare metal 2 for system deployment by the bare metal 2.

In one embodiment, the service configuration file is determined according to the service to be provided by the bare metal 2, and the system image is generated according to the basic configuration file and the service configuration file. Wherein, the basic configuration file includes, but not limited to, kernel, memory file system and operating system. For example, the operating system is an ubuntu system. The service configuration file includes the reasoning engine and training engine of the deep learning framework, as well as the physical protocol conversion program corresponding to the sensor, the preprocessing program of the sensing data, and the like.

Specifically, read the configuration file (system configuration file and service configuration file) corresponding to the hardware information of the bare metal 2 through the image generation command issued by the Ironic conductor according to the SSH (secure shell) protocol, Configure the configuration file to the image customization configuration item, obtain the configuration information of the customized image, read the corresponding bare-metal configuration file according to the obtained configuration information, and write the configuration information to kickstart (to enable fast restart) In the command file, put the files and installation packages required by Bare Metal 2 into the rootfs.img to be mirrored. Further deliver configuration information and image generation instructions based on the image customization service, generate the corresponding system image based on the configuration information, download the system image to the local hard disk of Bare Metal 2, and mount it to the specified directory, modify the boot item to slave Start the disk, and restart the bare metal 2 to complete the automatic installation.

Further, the method further includes: detecting whether the hardware information of the bare metal 2 that has been deployed has changed, and when detecting that the hardware information of the bare metal 2 has changed, based on the changed hardware Based on the above method, redeploy the bare metal 2 according to the re-determined services to be provided by the bare metal.

The bare metal deployment method provided in this application can automatically deploy the system on the bare metal according to the hardware information of the bare metal, which improves the deployment efficiency of the bare metal and provides flexible settings for the bare metal system.

Please refer to FIG. 4 , which is a schematic structural diagram of an electronic device provided in a preferred embodiment of the present application.

The electronic device 1 includes, but is not limited to, a processor 10 , a memory 20 and a computer program 30 stored in the memory 20 and capable of running on the processor 10 . For example, the computer program 30 is a bare-metal deployment program. When the processor 10 executes the computer program 30, the steps in the bare-metal deployment method are implemented, such as steps S201-S204 shown in FIG. 2 .

Exemplarily, the computer program 30 can be divided into one or more modules/units, and the one or more modules/units are stored in the memory 20 and executed by the processor 10 , to complete this application. The one or more modules/units may be a series of computer program instruction segments capable of accomplishing specific functions, and the instruction segments are used to describe the execution process of the computer program 30 in the electronic device 1 .

Those skilled in the art can understand that the schematic diagram is only an example of the electronic device 1 and does not constitute a limitation to the electronic device 1. It may include more or less components than those shown in the illustration, or combine certain components, or have different Components, for example, the electronic device 1 may also include input and output devices, network access devices, bus bars, and the like.

The so-called processor 10 can be a central processing unit (Central Processing Unit, CPU), and can also be other general-purpose processors, digital signal processors (Digital Signal Processor, DSP), application specific integrated circuits (Application Specific Integrated Circuit, ASIC) , Ready-made programmable gate array (Field-Programmable Gate Array, FPGA) or other programmable logic devices, discrete gate or transistor logic devices, discrete hardware components, etc. The general-purpose processor can be a microprocessor or the processor 10 can also be any conventional processor, etc., the processor 10 is the control center of the electronic device 1, and uses various interfaces and lines to connect the entire electronic device 1. various parts.

The memory 20 can be used to store the computer program 30 and/or module/unit, and the processor 10 runs or executes the computer program and/or module/unit stored in the memory 20, And calling the data stored in the memory 20 to realize various functions of the electronic device 1 . The memory 20 may mainly include a program storage area and a data storage area, wherein the program storage area may store an operating system, an application program (such as a sound playback function, an image playback function, etc.) required by at least one function, etc.; The area can store data (such as audio data, phone book, etc.) created according to the use of the electronic device 1 . In addition, the memory 20 may include volatile and non-volatile memory, such as hard disk, memory, plug-in hard disk, smart memory card (Smart Media Card, SMC), secure digital (Secure Digital, SD) card, flash memory card (Flash Card), at least one disk memory component, flash memory device, or other memory components.

If the integrated modules/units of the electronic device 1 are realized in the form of software function units and sold or used as independent products, they can be stored in a computer-readable storage medium. Based on such an understanding, all or part of the processes in the methods of the above embodiments of the present application can also be completed by instructing related hardware through computer programs, and the computer programs can be stored in a computer-readable storage medium. When the computer program is executed by the processor, it can realize the steps of the above-mentioned various method embodiments. Wherein, the computer program includes computer program code, and the computer program code may be in the form of original code, object code, executable file or some intermediate form. The computer-readable medium may include: any entity or device capable of carrying the computer program code, recording medium, flash drive, mobile hard disk, magnetic disk, optical disk, computer memory, read-only memory (ROM, Read- Only Memory), Random Access Memory (RAM, Random Access Memory).

The bare metal deployment method, electronic device and storage medium provided in this application can automatically deploy the bare metal system according to the hardware information of the bare metal, which improves the deployment efficiency of the bare metal and provides flexible settings for the bare metal system.

It will be apparent to those skilled in the art that the present application is not limited to the details of the exemplary embodiments described above, but that the present application can be implemented in other specific forms without departing from the spirit or essential characteristics of the present application. Therefore, no matter from any point of view, the embodiments should be regarded as exemplary and non-restrictive. The scope of the present application is defined by the appended patent scope rather than the above description, so it is intended that the scope of the application shall be All changes within the meaning and range of equivalents of the patent claims are embraced in this application. Any reference sign in a claim should not be construed as limiting the claim involved. In addition, it is obvious that the word "comprising" does not exclude other elements or steps, and the singular does not exclude the plural. A plurality of units or devices stated in the scope of patent application for devices can also be realized by the same unit or device through software or hardware. The words first, second, etc. are used to denote names and do not imply any particular order.

In summary, the present invention meets the requirements of an invention patent, and a patent application is filed according to law. However, what is described above is only a preferred embodiment of the present invention, and all equivalent modifications or changes made by those who are familiar with the technology of the present invention according to the spirit of the present invention should be covered by the scope of the following patent application.

1: Electronic device 10: Processor 20: memory 30: Computer program 2: bare metal 201: Power controller 202: memory 203: hard disk 204:CPU S201~S204: steps

FIG. 1 is a schematic diagram of an application environment architecture of a bare-metal deployment method provided by a preferred embodiment of the present application. Fig. 2 is a flowchart of a bare metal deployment method provided by a preferred embodiment of the present application. Fig. 3 is a schematic diagram of the interaction between the electronic device and the bare metal provided in the preferred embodiment of the present application. Fig. 4 is a schematic structural diagram of an electronic device provided in a preferred embodiment of the present application.

S201~S204: steps

Claims (9)

A bare metal deployment method, wherein the method includes: starting at least one bare metal of a system to be deployed, assigning an IP address to the bare metal; downloading a deployment image to the bare metal based on the IP address, and Obtain the hardware information of the bare metal based on the deployment image; determine the services to be provided by the bare metal according to a preset bare metal deployment strategy and the hardware information of the bare metal, wherein the default bare metal The machine deployment strategy includes the hardware type or hardware attributes contained in the bare metal, the corresponding relationship between the services to be provided by the bare metal and the system image profile; generate a system image according to the services to be provided by the bare metal, and Sending the system image to the bare metal for system deployment on the bare metal. The bare metal deployment method according to claim 1, wherein the hardware information includes the hardware type and/or hardware attributes, the bare metal deployment strategy according to the default and the hardware of the bare metal Determining the services to be provided by the bare metal includes: if the hardware type included in the bare metal includes at least an AI acceleration chip, determining the corresponding AI acceleration chip according to the preset bare metal deployment strategy The services to be provided by the bare metal include at least inference services for deep learning; if the hardware type included in the bare metal includes at least a GPU, determine the bare metal corresponding to the GPU according to the preset bare metal deployment strategy The services to be provided include at least deep learning training services; if the hardware type contained in the bare metal includes at least sensors, determine the corresponding to the sensors according to the preset bare metal deployment strategy The services to be provided by the bare metal include at least the sensing data acquisition service. The bare metal deployment method as described in claim 1, wherein the method further includes: detecting in real time whether the hardware information of the bare metal that has completed system deployment has changed; When it is detected that the hardware information of the bare metal has changed, re-determine the services to be provided by the bare metal; redeploy the bare metal according to the re-determined services to be provided by the bare metal. The bare metal deployment method as described in claim 1, wherein said enabling the bare metal of the system to be deployed, and assigning an IP address to the bare metal includes: enabling the bare metal of the system to be deployed by using an IPMI command, based on The DHCP service obtains the IP address of the TFTP service, and allocates the IP address to the bare metal. The bare-metal deployment method as described in claim 1, wherein the method further includes: detecting whether at least one bare-metal communication connection with the electronic device is added every preset time; When the electronic device is connected to the at least one bare metal in communication, the at least one bare metal is turned on. The bare metal deployment method according to claim 1, wherein the downloading the deployment image to the bare metal based on the IP address, and obtaining the hardware information of the bare metal based on the deployment image includes: downloading the The hardware information collection program in the deployment image is downloaded to the bare metal, and the bare metal is controlled to start the hardware information collection program to collect the hardware information. The bare metal deployment method according to claim 1, wherein said generating the system image according to the services to be provided by the bare metal includes: generating a service configuration file according to the services to be provided by the bare metal; The service configuration file generates the system image, wherein the basic configuration file at least includes a kernel, a memory file system and an operating system. An electronic device, wherein the electronic device includes: a processor; and A memory, wherein a plurality of program modules are stored in the memory, and the plurality of program modules are loaded by the processor to execute the bare-metal deployment method as described in any one of claims 1 to 7. A computer-readable storage medium, on which at least one computer instruction is stored, wherein the instruction is loaded by a processor to execute the bare-metal deployment method as described in any one of claims 1-7.

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