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Ironic Python Agent

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Overview

An agent for controlling and deploying Ironic controlled baremetal nodes.

The ironic-python-agent works with the agent driver in Ironic to provision
the node. Starting with ironic-python-agent running on a ramdisk on the
unprovisioned node, Ironic makes API calls to ironic-python-agent to provision
the machine. This allows for greater control and flexibility of the entire
deployment process.

The ironic-python-agent may also be used with the original Ironic pxe drivers
as of the Kilo OpenStack release.

Building the IPA deployment ramdisk

For more information see the Image Builder <https://docs.openstack.org/ironic-python-agent/latest/install/index.html#image-builders>_ section of the Ironic Python Agent
developer guide.

Using IPA with devstack

This is covered in the Deploying Ironic with DevStack <https://docs.openstack.org/ironic/latest/contributor/dev-quickstart.html#deploying-ironic-with-devstack>_
section of the Ironic dev-quickstart guide.

Project Resources

Project bugs are tracked on Launchpad:

https://bugs.launchpad.net/ironic-python-agent/+bugs

Developer documentation can be found here:

https://docs.openstack.org/ironic-python-agent/latest/

Release notes for the project are available at:

https://docs.openstack.org/releasenotes/ironic-python-agent/

Source code repository for the project is located at:

https://opendev.org/openstack/ironic-python-agent/

IRC channel:
#openstack-ironic on irc.oftc.net

To contribute, start here: Openstack: How to contribute <https://docs.openstack.org/infra/manual/developers.html>_.