Ironic consists of two main components: ironic-api
and
ironic-conductor
. Additionally, it requires several auxiliary services for
ironic-conductor
including TFTP and HTTP servers. To enable the Compute
service users to provision their workloads on bare metal servers, the
nova-compute
service is configured to use the ironic
virt-driver.
Component |
Description |
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Performs actual node provisioning. Due to security and performance considerations, it is deployed
on separate
bmt* VMs on MCP KVM nodes along with its auxiliary
services. |
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Due to security considerations, two pools of
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Separate pool of |