The previous chapters described the core OpenStack components to create a cloud. Additional components offer other services that are related to cloud administration. This chapter discusses the component Ironic that is available in the Juno release.
While the core components of OpenStack enable you to provision virtual machines or VM instances, Ironic provides services for registering, provisioning, and decommissioning bare metal instances or nodes. Ironic uses common technologies such as PXE boot and IPMI to support a wide range of hardware that you can provision. Additionally, a pluggable driver mechanism enables Ironic to manage and support vendor-specific hardware.
For further information about Ironic and the advantages it offers, refer to the Ironic's developer documentation at the OpenStack community web site.
Ironic consists of three primary components. In Oracle Solaris, these components are delivered as SMF Services. The following table lists and describes these components.
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