Ironic is flexible for x86/x86_64 servers by supporting BIOS and UEFI. But to deploy servers of other architectures, such as aarch64 or ppc64, configuration(PXE boot file and config template) must be modified, which means one Ironic conductor can only deploy baremetal machines of one architecture. This patch adds multi arch deployment support. For example, to deploy x86_64 and aarch64 servers by one Ironic conductor. Closes-Bug: #1582964 Change-Id: I628320aeb44b232a262d0843bc726a68d297e1f8
Ironic
Ironic consists of an API and plug-ins for managing and provisioning physical machines in a security-aware and fault-tolerant manner. It can be used with nova as a hypervisor driver, or standalone service using bifrost. By default, it will use PXE and IPMI to interact with bare metal machines. Ironic also supports vendor-specific plug-ins which may implement additional functionality.
Ironic is distributed under the terms of the Apache License, Version 2.0. The full terms and conditions of this license are detailed in the LICENSE file.
Project resources
- Documentation: http://docs.openstack.org/developer/ironic
- Source: http://git.openstack.org/cgit/openstack/ironic
- Bugs: http://bugs.launchpad.net/ironic
- Wiki: https://wiki.openstack.org/wiki/Ironic
- APIs: http://developer.openstack.org/api-ref/baremetal/index.html
Project status, bugs, and requests for feature enhancements (RFEs) are tracked on Launchpad: http://launchpad.net/ironic
For information on how to contribute to ironic, see http://docs.openstack.org/developer/ironic/dev/code-contribution-guide.html