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This patch is adding support for deploying nodes with the pxe_ipmitool driver and VMs. The patch adds a dependency on the "virtualbmc" utility which is responsible for creating a virtual/fake BMC that handles the IPMI commands (using pyghmi.bmc) and convert it to calls to the python-libvirt library. The function "is_ironic_hardware" was converted into a variable called "IRONIC_IS_HARDWARE" which can be set to True/False to indicate whether DevStack is being setup for baremetal or VMs. Partial-Bug: #1544642 Change-Id: I5edc51c7fc8b6f0bb7fe4ca129596709a32eb93e
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
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