Installing Ironic Bare Metal Service¶
The Bare Metal service is a collection of components that provides support to manage and provision physical machines. Ironic can run as a standalone service or as part of an OpenStack deployment. Sections covering integration with other OpenStack services assume a working setup of OpenStack following the OpenStack Installation Guides.
This chapter contains the following sections:
- Deployment Scenarios
- Technical Overview of Ironic
- Why Provision Bare Metal
- Bare Metal service components
- Interaction with OpenStack components
- Logical architecture
- Associated projects
- Preboot Execution Environment (PXE)
- Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol (DHCP)
- Network Bootstrap Program (NBP)
- Trivial File Transfer Protocol (TFTP)
- Intelligent Platform Management Interface (IPMI)
- Deploy Process
- Example: PXE Boot and Direct Deploy Process
- Deployment architecture
- Reference Deploy Architectures
- Install and configure the Bare Metal service
- Building or downloading a deploy ramdisk image
- Integration with other OpenStack services
- Configure the Identity service for the Bare Metal service
- Configure the Compute service to use the Bare Metal service
- Configure the Networking service for bare metal provisioning
- Configuring services for bare metal provisioning using IPv6
- Configure Trait Based Networking to Plan Networking Related Operations at vif Attach
- Configure the Image service for temporary URLs
- Enabling HTTPS
- Configure the Bare Metal service for cleaning
- Configure tenant networks
- Add images to the Image service
- Create flavors for use with the Bare Metal service
- Set up the drivers for the Bare Metal service
- Enrolling hardware with Ironic
- Using Bare Metal service as a standalone service
- Enabling the configuration drive (configdrive)
- Graphical console support
- Advanced features
- Troubleshooting
- Next steps
