This morning at the OpenStack Foundation board meeting we announced that we will focusing more our open infrastructure messaging efforts on bare-metal, and the promotion of Ironic in particular. To support these efforts, I'd like to form a Bare Metal SIG to bring together community members to collaborate on this work. The purpose of the Bare Metal SIG will be to promote the development and use of Ironic and other OpenStack bare-metal software. This will include marketing efforts like case studies of Ironic clusters in industry and academia, supporting integration of Ironic with projects like Airship and the Kubernetes Cluster API, coordinating presentations for industry events, developing documentation and tutorials, gathering feedback from the community on usage and feature gaps, and other broader community-facing efforts to encourage the adoption of Ironic as a bare-metal management tool.
If you would like to participate, please indicate your interest in the linked planning etherpad. Ideally we would like to have broad engagement from across the community, from developers and practitioners alike. We'd like to highlight all of the efforts and usage across our community communicate how powerful Ironic is for hardware management.
https://etherpad.openstack.org/p/bare-metal-sig
Thanks in advance to everyone. I’ve been using Ironic to manage my home cluster for quite a while now, and I’m really excited to be working on the SIG and in supporting the efforts of the Ironic team and the users who are running Ironic in production.
Chris Hoge Strategic Program Manager OpenStack Foundation