Ironic-Agent

Ironic-Agent
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Summary: Ironic-Agent provides a small agent application that exposes a RESTful API, that Ironic can use to provision a bare metal server.

Parent Program: Bare Metal Provisioning

PTL: TBD (Russell/Paul?)

Description: Ironic-Agent provides a small agent application that exposes a RESTful API, that Ironic can use to provision a bare metal server. The API exposes endpoints for writing images, preparing servers for a customer, rebooting, running health checks, and hardware maintenance such as secure erase of disks. There will exist a corresponding driver in Ironic.

Roadmap: TBD

Source code: https://github.com/rackerlabs/teeth-agent (soon to move to stackforge)

Programming Language: Python

Technical Dependencies: To make good use of the project, a ramdisk image must be built that runs the application.

Open Sourced? Yes, under Apache 2.0 license.

Software Maturity: Currently alpha status and not feature-complete.

Team Maturity: TBD

Project Developers Qualifications: TBD

Infrastructure requirements: TBD (CI, anything else?)

All current contributors have agreed to the OpenStack CLA.