Ironic
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Ironic is an integrated OpenStack project which aims to provision bare
metal machines instead of virtual machines, forked from 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.

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Project Resources
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Project status, bugs, and blueprints are tracked on Launchpad:

  http://launchpad.net/ironic

Developer documentation can be found here:

  http://docs.openstack.org/developer/ironic

Additional resources are linked from the project wiki page:

  https://wiki.openstack.org/wiki/Ironic

Anyone wishing to contribute to an OpenStack project should
find a good reference here:

  http://docs.openstack.org/infra/manual/developers.html
