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The first few sections of the 'Introduction to Ironic' document were updated to: - mention that it is included with OpenStack releases starting with Kilo - mention that Swift is missing from the Conceptual Architecture diagram - removes Figure 1.3.1 "Deployment Architecture" and the text surrounding that for several reasons: it places ir-cond on the same host as n-cpu, which is not advisable in some situations; it suggests placing ir-api on a monolithic "Cloud Controller Node", but does not explain why this unusual choice was made; and it does not include any depiction of the physical servers which Ironic is going to manage, nor the IPMI network connectivity to them which is required. - mentions that for security reasons, ir-cond should be placed on an isolated host, as it is the *only* service which requires access to both data plane and IPMI control plane. - modified (what was Figure 1.3.2) deployment_architecture_2.png so that it doesn't include a figure number Change-Id: Ifeeba636c9e7de65385e9f9c631709b2dd09e25b Partial-Bug: #1353688
Ironic
Ironic is an integrated OpenStack project which aims to provision bare metal machines instead of virtual machines, forked from the Nova Baremetal driver. It is best thought of as a bare metal hypervisor API and a set of plugins which interact with the bare metal hypervisors. By default, it will use PXE and IPMI in concert to provision and turn on/off machines, but Ironic also supports vendor-specific plugins which may implement additional functionality.
Project Resources
Project status, bugs, and blueprints are tracked on Launchpad:
Developer documentation can be found here:
Additional resources are linked from the project wiki page:
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All OpenStack projects use Gerrit for code reviews. A good reference for that is here: