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slipbox/A.org

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+#+TITLE: NanoMetal
+#+AUTHOR: Adam Mohammed
+
+Nanometal intends to be a easily deployable suite of services which
+help you manage your hardware as if it were in a datacenter controlled
+by equinixmetal. This means that you can use the existing APIs to
+manage your machines, provisioning and deprovisioning on the fly, and
+having easy out-of-band access for when things go wrong.

slipbox/B.org

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+#+TITLE: Levels of abstraction to manage hardware differences
+
+OpenStack and Equinix metal both use multiple layers of abstraction to
+make managing bare metal servers look simple. On the surface you get
+access to basic operations: provision/deprovision, rescue, power,
+boot. Each of which ends up having to do specific things depending on
+the hardware vendor or OS.
+
+
+TAGS: BareMetal Management
+REF: [[file:~/org-notes/literature-notes/OpenStackBareMetal.org][OpenStack_Ironic]]

slipbox/C.org

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+#+TITLE: RAMDisk to provide initial machine control
+
+OpenStack's ironic-conductor is the basic gRPC API that performs
+actions on bare metal. In order for it to provide this functionality
+the conductor relies on drivers, which handle the hardware specific
+implementation issues, and an on-machine agent. The on-machine agent
+is loaded as a ramdisk and gives the conductor the ability to perform
+some sets of actions on the machine.
+
+TAGS: BareMetal Provisioning