From a7cd4d55787353ae6e9ed818d12c853f45c8bd35 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Dmitry Tantsur Date: Tue, 25 Jan 2022 15:37:13 +0100 Subject: [PATCH] Recommend various installers in the install guide Arguably, installing ironic from packages manually should not be the first option to resort to. Link to some installers. Change-Id: Ia5d90263f73bae5f94d5239e71a7ae81262b5117 --- doc/source/install/install.rst | 29 +++++++++++++++++++++++++---- 1 file changed, 25 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-) diff --git a/doc/source/install/install.rst b/doc/source/install/install.rst index 75a9b8f39a..b2c9e1da8c 100644 --- a/doc/source/install/install.rst +++ b/doc/source/install/install.rst @@ -1,12 +1,33 @@ -.. _install: - Install and configure the Bare Metal service ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ This section describes how to install and configure the -Bare Metal service, code-named ironic. +Bare Metal service, code-named ironic, manually from packages on one of the +three popular families of Linux distributions. -Note that installation and configuration vary by distribution. +Alternatively, you can use one of the numerous projects that install ironic. +One of them is provided by the bare metal team: + +* `Bifrost `_ installs ironic in + the standalone mode (without the rest of OpenStack). + +More installation projects are developed by other OpenStack teams: + +* `Kolla + `_ + can install ironic in containers as part of OpenStack. +* OpenStack-Ansible has a `role to install ironic + `_. +* TripleO uses ironic for provisioning bare metal nodes and can also be used + `to install ironic + `_. + +.. NOTE(dtantsur): add your favourite installation tool, but please link to the + **Ironic guide**, not to the generic page. If a separate Ironic guide does + not exist yet, create it first. + +Contents +-------- .. toctree:: :maxdepth: 2