coreos / coreos/ignition

Provide a way for Ignition to report provisioning success/failure

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Description

Issue by @bgilbert


Issue Report

Feature Request

Environment

Any

Desired Feature

Consider adding a way (in the Ignition config itself, or on the kernel command line) to specify a URL Ignition can POST to report success or failure.

Other Information

Use cases:

  1. Cluster monitoring, e.g. nodes which fail provisioning due to a disk failure
  2. Platform-specific reporting via platform hooks, e.g. coreos/bugs#2130
  3. kola logging

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  3. Fork the repository and make your change on a branch.
  4. Open a pull request that references the issue number.

Research direction

Start by reviewing Ignition's configuration and kernel command-line handling, then examine platform hooks and the provisioning flow. The issue is complete when Ignition can report both provisioning success and failure to a configured URL, covering cluster monitoring, platform reporting, and kola logging use cases.

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Assessment

Tech stack
go
Domain
devops, infrastructure
Issue type
Feature
Difficulty
5/5
Estimated time
Over a week
Activity status
Stale
Clarity
Mostly clear
Newbie friendliness
28/100

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