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+# Deployment configuration for a physical hardware POD
+---
+
+# this is used to generate the genconfig/cord-inv file
+headnode:
+  ip: '10.201.101.21'
+  ansible_user: 'cord'
+  ansible_ssh_pass: 'cord'
+  ansible_ssh_port: 22
+
+common:
+
+  # set to the profile of cord you want to install
+  cord_profile: 'rcord'
+
+  # cord dir is shared to corddev VM, causing permissions issues if these aren't set
+  credentials_dir: '/opt/credentials'
+  pki_dir: '/opt/pki'
+  ssh_pki_dir: '/opt/ssh_pki'
+
+
+  # all of these are written to genconfig/config.yml, and needs a rework
+
+  # Network address information for the head node:
+  #
+  # fabric_ip     - the IP address and mask bits to be used to configure the network
+  #                 interface connected to the leaf - spine fabric
+  #
+  # management_ip - the IP address and mask bits to be used to configure the network
+  #                 interface connecting the head node to the POD internal
+  #                 management network. The head node will deliver DHCP addresses to
+  #                 the other compute nodes over this interface
+  #
+  # external_ip   - the IP address and mask bits to be used to configure the network
+  #                 interface connecting the head node (and the POD) to the
+  #                 Internet. All traffic in the POD to external hosts will be
+  #                 NAT-ed through this interface
+  fabric_ip: '10.6.1.1/24'
+  management_ip: '10.6.0.1/24'
+  external_ip: '10.201.101.21/24'
+  external_iface: 'eth2'
+  external_gw: '10.201.101.1'
+  skipTags:
+  extraVars:
+    - 'management_ignore_names=eth0'
+
+  # Experimental: DPDK config options
+  enable_dpdk: True
+  vcpu_pin_set: '4-7'
+  kernel_opts: '''isolcpus=2-7 nohz_full=2-7 rcu_nocbs=2-7'''
+  hugepages: '75%' # make sure %hugepages enough for ovs and VMs
+  dpdk_socket_memory: '1024,0' # single numa else 1024,1024 # make sure %hugepages enough for ovs and VMs
+  dpdk_lcore_mask: '0x4' # core2
+  fabric_interfaces: 'eth2' # not sure abt which is the fabric interface
+  pmd_cpu_mask: '0x8' # core3
+
+passwords:
+  compute_node: "ubuntu"
+  maas_admin: "admin"
+  maas_user: "cord"
+
+docker:
+  imageVersion: candidate
+
+otherNodes:
+  # Experimental
+  #
+  # Specifies the subnet and address range that will be used to allocate IP addresses
+  # to the compute nodes as they are deployed into the POD.
+  fabric:
+    network: 10.6.1.1/24
+    range_low: 10.6.1.2
+    range_high: 10.6.1.253
+