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This is part 4 in the series of BareMetal-as-a-Service with Ironic. In this article I will focus on highly distributed architectures. Baremetal cloud as a service for the edge and large environments.

What would be a good use of this architecture? I can think of few examples:

- managing lifecycle of hundreds of individual x86 servers monitoring production of the goods in manufacturing industry 

- almost any x86 based IOT use case

- managing highly distributed infrastructure sitting in stores for the large retailers

- managing unreleased server equipment directly...Read more

In first part of the series we have learned how to properly deploy OpenStack Ironic with Red Hat OpenStack Platform 13 (OSP13). Today we will take our deployment to the next level and enable Inspection and Autodiscovery for baremetal nodes in overcloud.

Please note OpenStack Inspector is not officially supported in OSP13 mostly due to limitation of not being capable to run in HA fashion. The limitation has been addressed and is planned to be part of the product in future release. In a mean time Red Hat requires to create support exception...Read more

OpenStack Ironic is one of the most exciting project I had pleasure to work with and help my clients with in the last year. Project Ironic is all about provisioning clusters of Baremetal nodes based on images stored in Glance with assigned networks managed by Neutron.

In the past Ironic has been neglected by System Architects and System Integrators mostly due to lack of feature parity comparable to more traditional baremetal bootstrap mechanisms. Now the feature gap has been mostly closed and at the same time Ironic can take advantages of other components and methodologies...Read more