Project Summary
Bare Metal as a Service.
Ironic is an open source project that fully manages bare metal infrastructure. It discovers bare-metal nodes, catalogs them in a management database, and manages the entire server lifecycle including enrolling, provisioning, maintenance, and decommissioning.
Ironic was originally developed for OpenStack. It has become a mature solution that can be used stand alone, with Kubernetes (Metal3), or with OpenStack. The Metal3.io project is also building Ironic integrations with Kubernetes.
In a Nutshell, OpenStack Ironic...
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has a well established, mature codebase
maintained by a very large development team
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took an estimated 50 years of effort (COCOMO model)
starting with its first commit in May, 2010
ending with its most recent commit 6 days ago
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Apache License 2.0
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