TFBootstrap Deployment

[mik-tf]

Todo

• Develop procedures to
  • deploy TFBootstrap (how to install new node)

Related issue

• See tfgrid validator stack main project issue for overview

[coesensbert]

in progress: https://github.com/threefoldtech/tf_operations/issues/2113

[coesensbert]

@maxux I suppose this is the same setup as for the hub, only with a different db and names?

[maxux]

Bootstrap is actually quite different:

• There is no database (except a legacy sqlite for mac address not used anymore AFAIK)
• There are a on-the-fly iPXE bootloader compilation executed to ship a bootloader customized with farmerid inside
• A directory which contains all the kernel available / we used

It's not difficult to put in place, we have deployment script on 0-bootstrap repository but we never deployed it somewhere else, this will be a good test.

[coesensbert]

I think i got it almost working based on https://github.com/threefoldtech/0-bootstrap , but have some questions before documenting everything.

https://bootstrap.ninja.tf/

[coesensbert]

Got it fully working with the help of Maxime, now documenting and finding a way to deploy it easily with the rest of the stack

[mik-tf]

Thanks for the update @coesensbert. And thanks @maxux for the work too.

You can make some basic documentation with the necessary steps then I can take it from there and make some official documentation, if that can save you some time.

[coesensbert]

Thanks @mik-tf but not yet, the docs I have now are raw things to run the service with python etc .. I had no idea how to run it, now I do. @maxux will first make a container out of it, publish it in ghcr and then I will make a compose file for it. Once that works and is tested, I will write docs on how to deploy with compose (and the possible accompanied scripts) and then you can push that to the manual and improve. If that's ok.

[mik-tf]

That's a perfect plan IMO. Thanks!