Bare Metal SIG meetup 2023Q1
New year - new Bare Metal SIG meetings! Starting with 2023, we're switching to a quarterly cadence, while making the meetings longer, more entertaining and opening the floor for more active engagement…
What is after BIOS?
Every six months or so, the Ironic project community meets to discuss current and new topics of interest. We call this the . This time serves as a time for many projects to gather and have the…
The scale of usage
The Scale of (Ironic) Usage About once a year, often in the beginning of the year, I receive a question to which I cannot really answer. Truthfully, it often comes from several avenues, and different…
Ironic 18.2
Xena Release On Wednesday, September 22nd, 2021, the Ironic team released its OpenStack Project "Xena" cycle deliverable for Ironic as version 18.2.0. For those who are not aware of how OpenStack…
Performance Update
What a Journey When I started out on a journey of trying to improve the performance of ironic a few months ago, the journey ended up taking a bit of a different path from what I expected. But I can…
Bare Metal SIG - Introduction to Bifrost
Bifrost allows to install Ironic in standalone mode (without other OpenStack components) and is also often chosen as a starting point to get familiar Ironic, or even for Ironic development. Core…
The search for performance
All the context I recently began on a journey to discover performance issues in Ironic. In part, because I made changes to improve operational security capabilites to users which we knew would have…
Checkout Case for Ironic in Cern IT
Ironic contributor Arne Wiebalck writes in a recent blog update on the about why they use Ironic and how it helps them support their users and ultimately their mission.
Bare Metal SIG - Secure RBAC
Ironic contributor Julia Kreger gives us an overview of Secure RBAC, a Wallaby cycle community effort, in Ironic.
Bare Metal SIG - Ironic Prometheus Exporter
Ironic contributor Iury Gregory Melo Ferreira introduces us to the Ironic Prometheus Exporter, a utility to help expose Bare Metal node sensor data to Prometheus.
Checkout Injecting Files in Ironic
Ironic contributor Dmitry Tantsur writes in a recent blog update on how to use the new injecting files feature in Ironic.
Bare Metal SIG - Deploy Steps Introduction
Ironic contributor Dmitry Tantsur introduces us to the Deploy Steps, a mechanism to have customized deployments processes.
Checkout Deploy Steps Tutorial
Ironic contributor Dmitry Tantsur writes in a recent blog update on how to create and use in-band deploy steps with Ironic.
Bare Metal SIG - Redfish Interop profiles
Ironic contributor Richard Pioso shares about the effort to create Inter Operability profiles for Redfish.
Bare Metal SIG - Ironic/Neutron ML2 interaction overview
Ironic contributor Julia Kreger shares an overview of the interaction between Ironic and Neutron with ML2 plugins.
Bare Metal SIG - Multi-Tenant Ironic
Ironic contributor Tzu-Mainn Chen shares an overview of the mutli-tenancy model supported in Ironic.
Checkout Ephemeral Workloads with Ironic
Ironic contributor Dmitry Tantsur writes in a recent blog update on how to use the ramdisk deploy interface to run ephemeral workloads with Ironic.
SuperUser - Scaling Bare Metal Provisioning with Nova and Ironic
Arne Wiebalck and Belmiro Moreira with CERN and Sunny Cai with the Open Infrastucture Foundation recently posted a an article on SuperUser titled . In this post, they talk about their experiences…
Checkout Ironic 2020
Ironic contributor Dmitry Tantsur has taken some time to share with us his recollection of the most important events from . Check it out!
StackHPC shares about Software RAID
In a blog post we recently found, the awesome folks at StackHPC have written about . Special thanks goes to Stig Telfer and Doug Szumski!