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Welcome to Ironic's developer documentation!
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Introduction
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Ironic is an Incubated OpenStack project which aims to provision bare
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metal (as opposed to virtual) machines by leveraging common technologies such
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as PXE boot and IPMI to cover a wide range of hardware, while supporting
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pluggable drivers to allow vendor-specific functionality to be added.
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If one thinks of traditional hypervisor functionality (eg, creating a VM,
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enumerating virtual devices, managing the power state, loading an OS onto the
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VM, and so on), then Ironic may be thought of as a *hypervisor API* gluing
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together multiple drivers, each of which implement some portion of that
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functionality with respect to physical hardware.
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For an in-depth look at the project's scope and structure, see the
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:doc:`dev/architecture` page.
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Status: Hard Hat Required!
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==========================
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Ironic is under rapid initial development, forked from Nova's `Baremetal
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driver`_. If you're looking for an OpenStack service to provision bare metal
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today, that is where you want to look.
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.. TODO
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.. - installation
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.. - configuration
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.. - DB and AMQP
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.. - API and Conductor services
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.. - integration with other OS services
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.. - any driver-specific configuration
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.. - hardware enrollment
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.. - manual vs automatic
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.. - hw plugins
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Developer Docs
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For those wishing to develop Ironic itself, or add drivers to extend Ironic's
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functionality, the following documentation is provided.
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.. toctree::
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:maxdepth: 1
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dev/architecture
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dev/contributing
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dev/dev-quickstart
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Client API Reference
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.. toctree::
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:maxdepth: 1
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dev/api-spec-v1
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Python API Quick Reference
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.. toctree::
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:maxdepth: 2
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dev/api
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dev/cmd
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dev/common
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dev/db
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dev/drivers
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dev/conductor
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Indices and tables
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* :ref:`genindex`
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* :ref:`modindex`
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* :ref:`search`
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.. _Baremetal Driver: https://wiki.openstack.org/wiki/Baremetal
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