ironic/README.rst

Ironic

Ironic is an integrated OpenStack project which aims to provision bare metal machines instead of virtual machines, forked from the Nova Baremetal driver. It is best thought of as a bare metal hypervisor API and a set of plugins which interact with the bare metal hypervisors. By default, it will use PXE and IPMI in concert to provision and turn on/off machines, but Ironic also supports vendor-specific plugins which may implement additional functionality.

Project Resources

Project status, bugs, and blueprints are tracked on Launchpad:

http://launchpad.net/ironic

Developer documentation can be found here:

http://docs.openstack.org/developer/ironic

Additional resources are linked from the project wiki page:

https://wiki.openstack.org/wiki/Ironic

Anyone wishing to contribute to an OpenStack project should find a good reference here:

http://docs.openstack.org/infra/manual/developers.html