Bare Metal Service Installation Guide¶
The Bare Metal service is a collection of components that provides support to manage and provision physical machines.
This chapter assumes a working setup of OpenStack following the OpenStack Installation Guides. It contains the following sections:
- Bare Metal service overview
- Reference Deploy Architectures
- Install and configure the Bare Metal service
- Building or downloading a deploy ramdisk image
- Integration with other OpenStack services
- Configure the Identity service for the Bare Metal service
- Configure the Compute service to use the Bare Metal service
- Configure the Networking service for bare metal provisioning
- Configuring services for bare metal provisioning using IPv6
- Configure the Image service for temporary URLs
- Enabling HTTPS
- Configure the Bare Metal service for cleaning
- Configure tenant networks
- Add images to the Image service
- Create flavors for use with the Bare Metal service
- Set up the drivers for the Bare Metal service
- Enrolling hardware with Ironic
- Using Bare Metal service as a standalone service
- Enabling the configuration drive (configdrive)
- Advanced features
- Troubleshooting
- Next steps
