Welcome to bifrost’s documentation!¶
Bifrost¶
Bifrost (pronounced bye-frost) is a set of Ansible playbooks that automates the task of deploying a base image onto a set of known hardware using ironic. It provides modular utility for one-off operating system deployment with as few operational requirements as reasonably possible.
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Use Cases¶
- Installation of ironic in standalone/noauth mode without other OpenStack components.
- Deployment of an operating system to a known pool of hardware as a batch operation.
- Testing and development of ironic in a standalone use case.
Documentation¶
Bifrost’s documentation can be found at the OpenStack documentation site.
Bifrost’s Mission¶
The mission of bifrost is to provide an easy path to deploy ironic in a stand-alone fashion, in order to help facilitate the deployment of infrastucture. While being a configurable project that can consume other OpenStack components to allow users to easily customize the environment to fit there needs, and drive forward the stand-alone perspective.
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