Ironic is an OpenStack service for managing and provisioning bare metal servers.
It provides an API and a collection of plug-ins for enrolling, inspecting, controlling, deploying, and maintaining physical machines, either as part of an OpenStack cloud through Nova’s bare metal driver or as a standalone provisioning service. It commonly uses technologies such as PXE, IPMI, Redfish, HTTPBoot, and virtual media boot operations to interact with hardware.
This is free and open source software.
Key Features
- Provides a REST API for bare metal machine lifecycle management.
- Supports hardware control through IPMI, Redfish, and vendor plug-ins.
- Can provision nodes using PXE, HTTPBoot, and virtual media based workflows.
- Works with Nova as a hypervisor driver or as a standalone service.
- Supports integration with related projects such as Bifrost and Metal3.
- Includes documentation, API references, release notes, and design specifications.
Website: github.com/openstack/ironic
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Developer: OpenStack
License: Apache License 2.0
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