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Ironic Ironic
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Ironic is an integrated OpenStack project which aims to provision bare Ironic consists of an API and plug-ins for managing and provisioning
metal machines instead of virtual machines, forked from the Nova Baremetal physical machines in a security-aware and fault-tolerant manner. It can be
driver. It is best thought of as a bare metal hypervisor **API** and a set used with nova as a hypervisor driver, or standalone service using bifrost.
of plugins which interact with the bare metal hypervisors. By default, it By default, it will use PXE and IPMI to interact with bare metal machines.
will use PXE and IPMI together to provision and turn on/off machines, Ironic also supports vendor-specific plug-ins which may implement additional
but Ironic also supports vendor-specific plugins which may implement functionality.
additional functionality.
----------------- Ironic is distributed under the terms of the Apache License, Version 2.0. The
Project Resources full terms and conditions of this license are detailed in the LICENSE file.
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Project resources
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* Free software: Apache license
* Documentation: http://docs.openstack.org/developer/ironic * Documentation: http://docs.openstack.org/developer/ironic
* Source: http://git.openstack.org/cgit/openstack/ironic * Source: http://git.openstack.org/cgit/openstack/ironic
* Bugs: http://bugs.launchpad.net/ironic * Bugs: http://bugs.launchpad.net/ironic
* Wiki: https://wiki.openstack.org/wiki/Ironic * Wiki: https://wiki.openstack.org/wiki/Ironic
* APIs: http://developer.openstack.org/api-ref/baremetal/index.html
Project status, bugs and RFEs (requests for feature enhancements) Project status, bugs, and requests for feature enhancements (RFEs) are tracked
are tracked on Launchpad: on Launchpad:
http://launchpad.net/ironic
http://launchpad.net/ironic For information on how to contribute to ironic, see
http://docs.openstack.org/infra/manual/developers.html
Anyone wishing to contribute to an OpenStack project should
find a good reference here:
http://docs.openstack.org/infra/manual/developers.html