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ironic/doc/source/dev/drivers.rst
Devananda van der Veen bc17510675 Remove 'fake' and 'ssh' drivers from default enabled list 
Remove the 'fake' and 'ssh' drivers, since they should not show up in
production, and it is better to have production-oriented sane defaults.

Updates the option doc string with a lengthy description.

Updates the developer documentation with a link to the wiki page,
where a list of CI-tested drivers will be maintained.

Change-Id: I1151ace22752efdf6a8a43e279a57d728ea6cce2
2014-06-10 03:54:04 +00:00

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Pluggable Drivers

Ironic supports a pluggable driver model. This allows contributors to easily add new drivers, and operators to use third-party drivers or write their own.

Drivers are loaded by the ironic-conductor service during initialization, by enumerating the python entrypoint "ironic.drivers" and attempting to load all drivers specified in the "enabled_drivers" configuration option. A complete list of drivers available on the system may be found by enumerating this entrypoint by running the following python script:

#!/usr/bin/env python

import pkg_resources as pkg
print [p.name for p in pkg.iter_entry_points("ironic.drivers") if not p.name.startswith("fake")]

A list of drivers enabled in a running Ironic service may be found by issuing the following command against that API end point:

ironic driver-list

Supported Drivers

For a list of supported drivers (those that are continuously tested on every upstream commit) please consult the wiki page:

https://wiki.openstack.org/wiki/Ironic/Drivers

../api/ironic.drivers.base ../api/ironic.drivers.pxe