Building or downloading a deploy ramdisk image

Ironic depends on having an image with the ironic-python-agent (IPA) service running on it for controlling and deploying bare metal nodes. This image is not written to the storage of any given node, but provides the runtime tooling and communication for the inspection, cleaning, and ultimately deployment of a bare metal node managed by Ironic.

Ironic publishes images on every commit from every branch of ironic-python-agent (IPA)

• DIB images are suitable for production usage and can be downloaded from https://tarballs.openstack.org/ironic-python-agent/dib/files/.

  Warning

  The published images will not work for dhcp-less deployments since the simple-init element is not present. Check the DIB documentation to see how to build the image.

Building from source

Check the ironic-python-agent-builder project for information on how to build ironic-python-agent ramdisks.