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This change moves inspection documentation to its own file (similar to RAID and cleaning). It also adds a list of capabilities we *might* discover during inspection. It's partly based on the iLO spec [1], partly - on the in-band capabilities discovery RFE [2]. The vendor-specific bits are missing on purpose. The goal here is to have a common subset of capabilities to be discovered by all (or the majority) of the drivers (including in-band inspection). [1] http://specs.openstack.org/openstack/ironic-specs/specs/kilo-implemented/ilo-properties-capabilities-discovery.html#proposed-change [2] https://bugs.launchpad.net/ironic-python-agent/+bug/1571580 Related-Bug: #1571580 Change-Id: If5d466a2c331674abb30d30dc39871f25a84de88
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============================================
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Welcome to Ironic's developer documentation!
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============================================
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Introduction
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============
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Ironic is an OpenStack project which provisions bare metal (as opposed to
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virtual) machines by leveraging common technologies such as PXE boot and IPMI
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to cover a wide range of hardware, while supporting pluggable drivers to allow
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vendor-specific functionality to be added.
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If one thinks of traditional hypervisor functionality (eg, creating a VM,
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enumerating virtual devices, managing the power state, loading an OS onto the
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VM, and so on), then Ironic may be thought of as a *hypervisor API* gluing
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together multiple drivers, each of which implement some portion of that
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functionality with respect to physical hardware.
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The documentation provided here is continually kept up-to-date based
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on the latest code, and may not represent the state of the project at any
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specific prior release.
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For information on any current or prior version of Ironic, see `the release
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notes`_.
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.. _the release notes: http://docs.openstack.org/releasenotes/ironic/
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Administrator's Guide
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=====================
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.. toctree::
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:maxdepth: 1
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deploy/user-guide
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Installation Guide <deploy/install-guide>
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Upgrade Guide <deploy/upgrade-guide>
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Configuration Reference (Liberty) <http://docs.openstack.org/liberty/config-reference/content/ch_configuring-openstack-bare-metal.html>
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drivers/ipa
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deploy/drivers
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deploy/cleaning
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deploy/raid
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deploy/inspection
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deploy/troubleshooting
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Release Notes <http://docs.openstack.org/releasenotes/ironic/>
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Commands and API References
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===========================
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.. toctree::
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:maxdepth: 1
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cmds/ironic-dbsync
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webapi/v1
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dev/drivers
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Developer's Guide
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=================
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.. toctree::
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:maxdepth: 1
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dev/architecture
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dev/states
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dev/contributing
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dev/code-contribution-guide
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dev/dev-quickstart
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dev/vendor-passthru
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dev/faq
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Indices and tables
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==================
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* :ref:`genindex`
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* :ref:`modindex`
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* :ref:`search`
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