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Hardware managers should load at runtime. This will ensure the agent is ready to respond to API calls before it begins heartbeating. Also, it means in case of a syntax or other error in a HardwareManager, the agent will crash before it heartbeats, which is better than it working until a hardware manager method is needed. Change-Id: I9403ce7bedc8d5af20b6d84371367253b26b74c2 Closes-bug: 1490008
ironic-python-agent
An agent for controlling and deploying Ironic controlled baremetal nodes.
The ironic-python-agent works with the agent driver in Ironic to provision the node. Starting with ironic-python-agent running on a ramdisk on the unprovisioned node, Ironic makes API calls to ironic-python-agent to provision the machine. This allows for greater control and flexibility of the entire deployment process.
The ironic-python-agent may also be used with the original Ironic pxe drivers as of the Kilo OpenStack release.
Building the IPA deployment ramdisk ==================================
See CoreOS Image builder <https://github.com/openstack/ironic-python-agent/tree/master/imagebuild/coreos>
Using IPA with devstack
This is covered in the Deploying Ironic with DevStack <http://docs.openstack.org/developer/ironic/dev/dev-quickstart.html#deploying-ironic-with-devstack> section of the Ironic dev-quickstart guide.
Project Resources
- IRC channel:
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#openstack-ironic
To contribute, start here: Openstack: How to contribute.