#+TITLE: Openstack: Bare Metal service overview
#+AUTHOR:

Openstack's BM service "ironic" works by having basic operations
add/edit/delete nodes
power on/off
provision/deploy/clean

The "conductor" calls out to driver for vendor specific
implementations of the above functions. A python ramdisk is used to
provide control on the target machine.

ref: https://docs.openstack.org/ironic/2023.1/install/get_started.html