--- prelude: | The 7.0.0 release includes many new features and bug fixes. Please review the upgrade section which describes the required actions to upgrade your ironic installation from 6.2.2 (Newton) to 7.0.0 (Ocata). A few major changes are worth mentioning. This is not an exhaustive list: - "Port group" support allows users to take advantage of bonded network interfaces. - State change and CRUD notifications can now be emitted. - Soft power off, soft reboot, and sending non-maskable interrupts (NMI) are now supported in the REST API. - The AMT, iBoot, msftocs, seamicro, VirtualBox, and Wake-On-Lan drivers have been removed from ironic. Please see the upgrade notes for additional details and options. - "Dynamic drivers" is a revamp of how drivers are composed. Rather than a huge matrix of hardware drivers supporting different things, now users select a "hardware type" for a machine, and can independently change the deploy method, console manager, RAID management, power control interface, etc. This is experimental, as not all "classic" drivers have a dynamic equivalent yet, but we encourage users to try this feature out and submit feedback.