Merge "Add Ironic Section in Administrator Guide"

doc/admin-guide-cloud/source/baremetal.rst

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+.. _baremetal:
+
+.. highlight: ini
+   :linenothreshold:
+
+==========
+Bare Metal
+==========
+
+The Bare Metal service provides physical hardware management features.
+
+Introduction
+~~~~~~~~~~~~
+
+The Bare Metal service provides physical hardware as opposed to
+virtual machines and provides several reference drivers which
+leverage common technologies like PXE and IPMI, to cover a wide range
+of hardware. The pluggable driver architecture also allows
+vendor-specific drivers to be added for improved performance or
+functionality not provided by reference drivers. The Bare Metal
+service makes physical servers as easy to provision as virtual
+machines in a cloud, which in turn will open up new avenues for
+enterprises and service providers.
+
+System architecture
+~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
+
+The Bare Metal module is composed of the following components:
+
+#. A RESTful API service
+
+#. A conductor service
+
+#. Various drivers that support heterogeneous hardware
+
+#. A message queue
+
+#. A database for storing information about the resources
+
+.. TODO Add the detail about each component.
+
+Bare Metal deployment
+~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
+
+#. PXE deploy process
+
+#. Agent deploy process
+
+.. TODO Add the detail about the process of Bare Metal deployment.

doc/admin-guide-cloud/source/index.rst

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    networking.rst
    telemetry.rst
    database.rst
+   baremetal.rst
    orchestration.rst
    cross_project.rst
    common/app_support.rst