Ironic Conductor: adds/deletes/updates nodes, turns nodes on/off via IPMI or SSH, and provisions/deploys/decommissions nodes; the Ironic API communicates with the Ironic Conductor via RPC. Ironic Agent: runs in a temporary ramdisk on a bare metal node, prepares a node for deployment and downloads the target system …

What is bare metal node?

A bare-metal instance is an instance created directly on a physical machine, without any virtualization layer running underneath it. Nova retains power control via IPMI. In some situations, Nova may retain network control via Neutron and OpenFlow.

What is bare metal installation?

What is Bare Metal? Bare metal is a single tenant server. This means only you are taking the resources of the server. The server belongs to you and you only. Compared to the cloud model where multiple users (multi-tenancy) reside on the same physical server, the bare metal server only has one customer on the server.