Ironic Python Agent Administration

Overview

Ironic Python Agent is an agent for controlling and deploying Ironic controlled baremetal nodes. Typically run in a ramdisk, the agent exposes a REST API for provisioning servers.

Throughout the documentation, Ironic Python Agent will be abbreviated to IPA.

Index

• How it works
  • Integration with Ironic
    • Compatible Deploy Drivers
      • Agent Deploy Driver
      • PXE Deploy Driver
      • Configuring Deploy Drivers
    • Lookup
    • Heartbeat
    • Inspection
  • Hardware Inventory
• References
• Rescue mode
  • Overview
  • Support in ironic-python-agent images
    • DIB
    • TinyIPA
• Troubleshooting Ironic-Python-Agent (IPA)
  • Gaining Access to IPA on a node
    • Access via ssh
      • diskimage-builder (DIB)
      • tinyipa
    • Access via console
      • diskimage-builder (DIB)
      • tinyipa
  • Set IPA to debug logging
  • Where can I find the IPA logs
  • Manually restart IPA
  • References

Indices and tables

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