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Welcome to Ironic's developer documentation!
Introduction
Ironic is an OpenStack project which provisions bare metal (as opposed to virtual) machines by leveraging common technologies such as PXE boot and IPMI to cover a wide range of hardware, while supporting pluggable drivers to allow vendor-specific functionality to be added.
If one thinks of traditional hypervisor functionality (eg, creating a VM, enumerating virtual devices, managing the power state, loading an OS onto the VM, and so on), then Ironic may be thought of as a hypervisor API gluing together multiple drivers, each of which implement some portion of that functionality with respect to physical hardware.
The documentation provided here is continually kept up-to-date based on the latest code, and may not represent the state of the project at any specific prior release.
For information on any current or prior version of Ironic, see the release notes.
Administrator's Guide
deploy/user-guide Installation Guide <deploy/install-guide> Upgrade Guide <deploy/upgrade-guide> Configuration Reference (Mitaka) <http://docs.openstack.org/mitaka/config-reference/bare-metal.html> drivers/ipa deploy/drivers deploy/cleaning deploy/raid deploy/inspection deploy/security deploy/adoption deploy/troubleshooting Release Notes <http://docs.openstack.org/releasenotes/ironic/> Dashboard (horizon) plugin <http://docs.openstack.org/developer/ironic-ui/>
Commands and API References
cmds/ironic-dbsync webapi/v1 dev/drivers
Developer's Guide
dev/architecture dev/states dev/contributing dev/code-contribution-guide dev/dev-quickstart dev/vendor-passthru dev/faq
Indices and tables
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