Julia Kreger 832826f640 Active Node Creation via adopt state

At present the ironic API explicitly sets the new state for
nodes to the beginning step in the ironic workflow.

As part of hardware fleet lifecycle management, an operator
expects to be able to migrate inventory and control systems
for their hardware fleet utilizing their existing inventory
data and allocation records. Ultimately this means that
an imported host MAY already be allocated and unavailable
for immediate allocation.

As such, a mechanism is required to permit users to put nodes
into an ACTIVE state without performing a deployment operation.

This adds a new API provision_state verb to allow users to move
nodes from MANAGEABLE state to ACTIVE state.

Partial-Bug: #1526315
Change-Id: Ib3eadf4172e93add9a9855582f56cbb3707f3d39
Depends-On: Ie114bfaab249d73ea3ca7c0edc314ca1ed0448eb

2016-06-07 09:13:22 -04:00

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Welcome to Ironic's developer documentation!

Introduction

Ironic is an OpenStack project which provisions 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.

The documentation provided here is continually kept up-to-date based on the latest code, and may not represent the state of the project at any specific prior release.

For information on any current or prior version of Ironic, see the release notes.

Administrator's Guide

deploy/user-guide Installation Guide <deploy/install-guide> Upgrade Guide <deploy/upgrade-guide> Configuration Reference (Mitaka) <http://docs.openstack.org/mitaka/config-reference/bare-metal.html> drivers/ipa deploy/drivers deploy/cleaning deploy/raid deploy/inspection deploy/security deploy/adoption deploy/troubleshooting Release Notes <http://docs.openstack.org/releasenotes/ironic/>

Commands and API References

cmds/ironic-dbsync webapi/v1 dev/drivers

Developer's Guide

dev/architecture dev/states dev/contributing dev/code-contribution-guide dev/dev-quickstart dev/vendor-passthru dev/faq

Indices and tables

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