2020 OCP Virtual Summit

Redfish is an open industry standard specification for hardware management. It is defined by the DMTF; Distributed Management Task Force. The Redfish Forum was formed in 2014 with the first specification coming in August 2015. New specifications are released every 3-4 months with the latest being 2019.4. Redfish is a replacement for IPMI-over-LAN; a 21-year-old standard. OpenBMC is an open-source Baseboard Management Controller (BMC) firmware stack. In March 2018; OpenBMC became a Linux Foundation project. IBM; Intel; and other OpenBMC contributors are working closely to implement Redfish on OpenBMC. The OpenBMC 2.7 release includes Redfish support for firmware update; inventory; sensors; user management; and event logs. The OpenBMC 2.8 release; scheduled for May 2020; will include Redfish support for LDAP; certificates; telemetry; and events. OpenBMC will continue to add Redfish schemas and properties and is working with the Redfish Forum to add schemas and properties not currently in the Redfish API. More information on OpenBMC's implementation can be found at https://github.com/openbmc/bmcweb.