Ironic provision bare metal machines instead of virtual machines. it is a fork of 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 is a client for the openstack ironic api. there's a python api (the "ironicclient" module), and a command-line script ("ironic").

installing this package gets you a shell command, that you can use to interact with ironic's api.

this package provides the documentation.