#+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