Bringup nodes only makes sense if you are requiring help from kdevops to do so. That is, for cloud solutions or for virtualized solutions. If you are using bare metal you can skip this step unless you want to run the devconfig playbook.
To get your systems up and running and accessible directly via ssh, just do:
make bringup
At this point you should be able to run:
ssh kdevops
The host name is set up through the Kconfig symbol CONFIG_KDEVOPS_HOSTS_PREFIX
.
There are sensible defaults set up for this depending on your virtualization or
cloud environment, but you should always be aware of what this is going to be
set up with. To verify you can just:
cat hosts
Or just run:
grep CONFIG_KDEVOPS_HOSTS_PREFIX .config
The devconfig playbook is an Ansible playbook which is run after your nodes are brought up. This installs your .gitconfig, preferred bash hack scripts, .vimrc, etc. But it also installs a set of packages you likely want installed on most systems. This is all configurable.