Ironic

= OpenStack Bare Metal Provisioning Program =

OpenStack bare metal provisioning a.k.a Ironic is an integrated OpenStack program which aims to provision bare metal machines instead of virtual machines, forked from the Nova baremetal driver. It is best thought of as a bare metal hypervisor API and a set of plugins which interact with the bare metal hypervisors. By default, it will use PXE and IPMI in order to provision and turn on/off machines, but Ironic also supports vendor-specific plugins which may implement additional functionality. For a general overview please see: Introduction to Ironic.

= Projects =

Ironic is governed by the OpenStack Technical Committee. The complete list of deliverables (and associated tags) that are officially under the Ironic umbrella is available here.

Some of the deliverables (or projects) are described below.

ironic
The ironic project includes the ironic-api and ironic-conductor processes.

python-ironicclient
python-ironicclient is a package that includes the python client and CLI.

ironic-python-agent
ironic-python-agent is a small python application that is meant to be embedded in a deployment ramdisk.

ironic-inspector
ironic-inspector is a hardware introspection tool.

bifrost
bifrost consists of Ansible play books for running Ironic standalone (without other OpenStack components).

networking-baremetal
networking-baremetal is a Neutron plugin that covers bare metal use cases; it provides deep Ironic/Neutron integration.

ironic-lib
ironic-lib is a common library of functions used exclusively by the projects under the Ironic governance.

ironic-ui
ironic-ui is a horizon plugin for ironic.

= People =

PTL: Julia Kreger (TheJulia)

Core teams: https://wiki.openstack.org/wiki/Ironic/CoreTeam

Cross-project liaisons: https://wiki.openstack.org/wiki/CrossProjectLiaisons

= Status =

Ironic was first available as an incubated project in the "Icehouse" release. The following "Juno" release saw improved integration with Nova, as well as many stability and feature improvements. Ironic completed the project graduation review at the end of the "Juno" cycle, and began "Kilo" development cycle as an officially integrated OpenStack project.

Release notes for Ironic are available at http://docs.openstack.org/releasenotes/ironic/.

Information on the latest status of Ironic's test suite can be found here: https://wiki.openstack.org/wiki/Ironic/Testing.

For a list of current drivers and the status of their CI testing, see the wiki page we maintain and the Stackalytics page which tracks third-party CI.

= Etherpads =

Our project teams frequently share ideas and coordinate by using etherpads, some of which stick around for a while. Those are listed here.
 * General-purpose "white board"
 * Coordination point during "review days"

= IRC =

Discussion of the project also takes place in #openstack-ironic on irc.freenode.net. This is a great place to jump in and start your ironic adventure. The channel is very welcoming to new users - no question is a wrong question!

= Developers =

Guidelines for developers can be found here: https://wiki.openstack.org/wiki/Ironic/Developer_guidelines Please note that for any non-trivial change that is not a fix for a particular bug, you have to go through the specs review process

= Pixie Boots, the Ironic drummer bear =

Pixie Boots is the mascot of the "Bear Metal" Provisioning Program for OpenStack, a.k.a Ironic. It was drawn by Lucas Alvares Gomes and two versions of it are available: One colored and one outlined. An icon shadowcut of pixie boots is also available, courtesy of Michael Krotscheck. Feel free to use the images to make t-shirts or any other paraphernalia.

High-resolution PNGs versions are available by clicking on the images below:

You can also download the Inkscape SVG vector file:

All images are licensed CC BY-SA.

Pixie Boots rockin': \m/ ʕ•͡ᴥ•ʔ \m/

= Misc. =


 * Ironic + IPv6

= Outside the OpenStack Bare Metal Provisioning Program =

Out-of-tree Ironic drivers
Drivers that can be used with Ironic but that aren't in the ironic repository, may be found in the ironic-staging-drivers repository.

Vendor-specific tools
Third-party vendors are encouraged to share their tools/scripts which might help people using their hardware with ironic. These tools are not maintained by the ironic core team and are not under the governance of the OpenStack Technical Committee. Vendors themselves should be contacted for features requests/bug fixes.