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At present the ironic API explicitly sets the new state for nodes to the beginning step in the ironic workflow. As part of hardware fleet lifecycle management, an operator expects to be able to migrate inventory and control systems for their hardware fleet utilizing their existing inventory data and allocation records. Ultimately this means that an imported host MAY already be allocated and unavailable for immediate allocation. As such, a mechanism is required to permit users to put nodes into an ACTIVE state without performing a deployment operation. This adds a new API provision_state verb to allow users to move nodes from MANAGEABLE state to ACTIVE state. Partial-Bug: #1526315 Change-Id: Ib3eadf4172e93add9a9855582f56cbb3707f3d39 Depends-On: Ie114bfaab249d73ea3ca7c0edc314ca1ed0448eb
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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