Contributing to Ironic Python Agent

Ironic Python Agent is an agent for controlling and deploying Ironic controlled baremetal nodes. Typically run in a ramdisk, the agent exposes a REST API for provisioning servers.

Throughout the remainder of the document, Ironic Python Agent will be abbreviated to IPA.

• Hardware Managers
  • How are methods executed on HardwareManagers?
  • Why build a custom HardwareManager?
  • How can I build a custom HardwareManager?
  • Custom HardwareManagers and Cleaning
  • Custom HardwareManagers and Deploying
  • Custom HardwareManagers and Service operations
    • Versioning
    • Priority
• Emitting metrics from Ironic-Python-Agent (IPA)
  • Overview
  • Using a context manager
  • Explicitly sending metrics
• Rescue Mode
  • finalize_rescue command

Generated Developer Documentation

• Module Index