iPXE Dynamic Configuration¶
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- Collect sensor data asynchronously
- Boot configuration API
- Add support for configdrive checksums
- Container console container provider
- Deferred (resumable) Actions
- API Evolution: etag ID
- Expose supported power states
- Firmware endpoint hardware identity
- Out-of-Band Inspection as Clean, Service, Verify Steps
- Kea DHCP backend
- Project Mercury
- Multi-Component Batched Firmware Updates
- NGS: Modern Switch Configuration Drivers
- NGS: Structured CLI Drivers for Linux-Based Switch Platforms
- Node Maintenance: Extensible Model
- VXLAN Support
- Introduce Driver Capabilities
- BMC event framework
- Add new node name filter API
- Obtaining Steps
- Support a new hardware type for Fujitsu PRIMEQUEST MMB
- Support per driver sensor meters
- Deployment of Bootable Containers (bootc)
- Graphical Console Support
- Migrate inspection rules from Inspector
- OCI (Container Registry) URL Support
- Firmware interface
- Modifying Active Nodes with Service Steps
- The evolution of the Smart NICs to DPUs
- Apply pre-defined system hardware configuration in single step
- System Scoped Role Based Access Control
- Define idrac Hardware Type Support of Redfish Interfaces
- Out-of-band disk-erase for Gen10 and above HPE Proliant Servers
- Support for Software RAID
- Add Intel® Speed Select Support
- Allocation API
- Deploy Templates
- Huawei iBMC Driver
- Out-of-band RAID configuration for Gen10 and above HPE Proliant Servers
- Ownership Information Storage
- Smart NIC Networking
- The direct deploy interface provisioning with HTTP server
- Expose conductor information from API
- Promote iPXE to separate boot interface
- Out of Band Inspection support for
redfishhardware type
- Boot from a Ramdisk
- Conductor/node grouping affinity
- Deployment Steps Framework
- Hardware interface for BIOS configuration
- Future of classic drivers
- Add Inspect Wait State
- Support baremetal inspection abort
- Power fault recovery
- SIGHUP on ironic services
- Promote Ansible deploy interface to ironic
- UEFI iSCSI Boot for iLO drivers
- Implement Rescue Mode
- Node Traits
- Lenovo XClarity Driver
- Boot from Volume - Reference Drivers
- Dynamic port groups
- Physical Network Awareness
- Add volume connection information for Ironic nodes
- Add notifications about resources CRUD and node states
- Driver composition reform
- Enhance Power Interface for Soft Power Off and NMI
- Interface Attach and Detach API
- Ironic Neutron Integration
- Add notification support to ironic
- Add InfiniBand Support
- Collect logs from agent ramdisk
- iPXE to use Swift Temporary URLs
- Implementation of ironic commands as an OSC plugin
- Third Party Driver Continuous Integration Testing
- Add pluggable metrics backend for Ironic and IPA
- Promote agent vendor passthru to core API
- Collect system logs from IPA
- Keystone Policy Support
- Pluggable network providers
- Add node resource_class field
- Nova-compatible Serial Console
- Dynamic allocation of nodes for the OneView drivers
- HTTP(S) proxy support for agent images downloading
- Switch periodic tasks to the Futurist library
- In-band RAID configuration using agent ramdisk
- New driver interface for RAID configuration
- Manual cleaning
- In-band cleaning support in iSCSI deploy drivers
- New driver in Ironic for OneView
- Ceph Object Gateway Temp URL support
- SSH Console
- Bare Metal Trust Using Intel TXT
- Cisco IMC PXE Driver
- Deprecate the bash ramdisk
- Boot Interface in Ironic
- Make ilo drivers standalone in ironic by removing swift dependency
- Cisco UCS PXE driver
- DRAC vendor passthru for BIOS settings management
- Add “enroll” state to the state machine
- Move Ironic to a feature-based release model
- iRMC Virtual Media Deploy Driver for Ironic
- Open CloudServer (OCS) power driver
- Determinable supported boot device list
- UEFI Secure Boot support for pxe_iLO driver
- Client Caching Of Negotiated Version
- Wake-On-Lan (WOL) power driver
- AMT PXE Driver
- Ironic Microversions
- automate-uefi-bios-iso-creation
- Driver Internal Info
- Allow drivers to have their own periodic tasks
- Expose configdrive to instances
- Extend Vendor Passthru
- Implement Cleaning Operations for iLO drivers
- iLO Management Interface
- Discover node properties and capabilities for iLO drivers
- Implement Cleaning States
- In-band hardware properties introspection via ironic-discoverd
- iRMC Management Driver for Ironic
- iRMC Power Driver for Ironic
- Discover node properties with node-set-provision-state
- Add support for VirtualBox through WebService
- Local boot support with partition images
- Ironic Logical Names
- Add maintenance reason field
- A proposal for the New Ironic State Machine.
- Support for non-glance image references
- Root device hints
- Seamicro Serial Console
- UEFI Secure Boot support for iLO drivers
- Whole Disk Image Support
- Add instance_info field to Node model
- Add Support for Retry on NodeLocked Exceptions
- Agent Driver
- Mechanism to cleanup all ImageCaches
- More robust device status checking with fuser
- DRAC Management driver for Ironic
- DRAC Power Driver for Ironic
- Enabling IPMI double bridge support
- API to Get driver_info Properties
- iLO IPA Deploy Driver
- iPXE boot
- iLO Power Driver for Ironic
- iLO Virtual Media iSCSI Deploy Driver
- Power driver for SNMP-enabled smart PDUs
- New driver ManagementInterface
- Send Sensor Data to Ceilometer
- Support external DHCP providers
- Swift Temporary URLs
- UEFI support for Ironic deploy drivers
- Attestation Interface and Keylime Integration
- Discover node properties and capabilities for ucs drivers
- Out-of-band RAID configuration using Cisco UCS drivers
- Dell EMC hardware firmware update
- iPXE Dynamic Configuration
- Redfish Proxy for Ironic Node Power Controls
- No IPA to conductor communication
- Nodes tagging
- OpenBMC Driver
- Override PXE options via Glance property
- Petitboot boot driver
- Snapshot support
- Synchronize events with Neutron
- VNC Graphical console