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Bare Metal Service User Guide
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Ironic is an OpenStack project which provisions bare metal (as opposed to
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virtual) machines. It may be used independently or as part of an OpenStack
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Cloud, and integrates with the OpenStack Identity (keystone), Compute (nova),
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Network (neutron), Image (glance) and Object (swift) services.
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When the Bare Metal service is appropriately configured with the Compute and
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Network services, it is possible to provision both virtual and physical
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machines through the Compute service's API. However, the set of instance
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actions is limited, arising from the different characteristics of physical
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servers and switch hardware. For example, live migration can not be performed
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on a bare metal instance.
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The community maintains reference drivers that leverage open-source
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technologies (eg. PXE and IPMI) to cover a wide range of hardware. Ironic's
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pluggable driver architecture also allows hardware vendors to write and
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contribute drivers that may improve performance or add functionality not
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provided by the community drivers.
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.. toctree::
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:maxdepth: 2
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architecture
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states
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creating-images
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deploy
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