Ironic is an incubated openstack project which aims to provision bare metal machines instead of virtual machines, forked from the nova baremetal driver. it is best thought of as a bare metal hypervisor **api** and a set of plugins which interact with the bare metal hypervisors. by default, it will use pxe and ipmi in concert to provision and turn on/off machines, but ironic also supports vendor-specific plugins which may implement additional functionality.

this package contains the common files.