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This patch enables cleaning by default. It is always safer to erase data after an instance has been deleted, and as such, this is a sane production default. The only potential impact of this option being enabled is that deletion may (depending on hardware) take longer. This commit also updates the help string to describe the only known production situation where disabling this option makes sense -- that is, where there is only a single, trusted tenant. Implements blueprint implement-cleaning-steps Depends-On: I77081165a80491da3e66d8a4554b6d71fc3d9353 Change-Id: I4ed4fbc8c4d88988add953307f8871cbfa33971f
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.
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