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Welcome to Ironic's developer documentation!
Introduction
Ironic is an Incubated OpenStack project which aims to provision 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.
Ironic should be considered Beta quality as of the Icehouse release, and will make the best effort to maintain backwards compatibility from this point forward. Release notes are available here: https://wiki.openstack.org/wiki/Ironic/ReleaseNotes/Icehouse
The developer documentation provided here is continually kept up-to-date based on the latest code, and may not represent the state of our APIs at any given release.
Developer Guide
Introduction
dev/architecture dev/contributing
dev/dev-quickstart
API References
webapi/v1 dev/common dev/db dev/drivers
Admin Guide
Overview
deploy/user-guide deploy/install-guide
Indices and tables
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