Administrator’s Guide

If you are a system administrator running Ironic, this section contains information that may help you understand how to operate and upgrade the services.

• Drivers, Hardware Types and Hardware Interfaces
• Ironic Python Agent
• Node Hardware Inspection
• Node Deployment
• Node Cleaning
• Node Adoption
• Node Retirement
• RAID Configuration
• BIOS Settings
• Node Rescuing
• Configuring to boot from volume
• Multi-tenant Networking
• Port Groups
• Configuring Web or Serial Console
• Enabling Notifications
• Conductor Groups
• Upgrade Guide
• Security
• Troubleshooting FAQ
• Power Sync with the Compute Service
• Node Multi-Tenancy
• Fast-Track Deployment
• Booting a Ramdisk or an ISO

Advanced Topics

• Ceph Object Gateway
• Windows Images
• Emitting Software Metrics
• Auditing API Traffic
• Service State Reporting
• Agent Token
• Deploying without BMC Credentials

Dashboard Integration

A plugin for the OpenStack Dashboard (horizon) service is under development. Documentation for that can be found within the ironic-ui project.

• Dashboard (horizon) plugin