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Bifrost
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Bifrost (pronounced bye-frost) is a set of Ansible playbooks that
automates the task of deploying a base image onto a set of known hardware using
ironic. It provides modular utility for one-off operating system deployment
with as few operational requirements as reasonably possible.

Team and repository tags
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Use Cases
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* Installation of ironic in standalone/noauth mode without other OpenStack
  components.
* Deployment of an operating system to a known pool of hardware as
  a batch operation.
* Testing and development of ironic in a standalone use case.

Documentation
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Bifrost's documentation can be found at the
`OpenStack documentation site <https://docs.openstack.org/bifrost/latest>`.