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currently the iPXE boot script is overwritten on every `prepare_ramdisk` call, which is inefficient. Instead, copy it over only when it is missing from HTTPROOT or is different from the one specified in the config. The comparison is performed using `filecmp` from Python standard lib, which in turn uses `os.stat()`, so although being not very strict, comparison does not call to any extra utilities and is fast. Change-Id: I1213fc9a9945e11f963d10f0581a7d69ef13ee53
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 together to provision and turn on/off machines, but Ironic also supports vendor-specific plugins which may implement additional functionality.
Project Resources
- Free software: Apache license
- Documentation: http://docs.openstack.org/developer/ironic
- Source: http://git.openstack.org/cgit/openstack/ironic
- Bugs: http://bugs.launchpad.net/ironic
- Wiki: https://wiki.openstack.org/wiki/Ironic
Project status, bugs and RFEs (requests for feature enhancements) are tracked on Launchpad:
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