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Hi all,

We're ecstatic to announce the release of ironic-python-agent 1.0.0. This is
the first ever release of this project, and is the basis for a stable/liberty
branch. We will continue to do intermediary releases and stable branches for
IPA, following Ironic's release model.

IPA is the heart of Ironic's deploy ramdisk. It was brought to the project
during the Icehouse cycle[0] as an alternate deploy mechanism to the existing
bash ramdisk. Since then, it has evolved to support every Ironic driver and
also provide a pluggable cleaning mechanism. It is now the recommended ramdisk
for Ironic deployments, and soon the only ramdisk, as the bash ramdisk is now
deprecated.

IPA is a python application that exposes a REST API for performing actions on
the server it is running on. It has a heartbeat mechanism, adding two-way
communication with Ironic. IPA allows for pluggable "hardware managers"; by
default it supports a wide variety of hardware in a generic way, and additional
hardware managers can be added to expose support or optimization for
specialized hardware. For example, one might add a hardware manager to make
disk erasure use a vendor-specific binary, rather than shred or hdparm's secure
erase.

Instructions for including ironic-python-agent in a ramdisk, and links to
pre-built ramdisks from the master branch, are available at:
http://docs.openstack.org/developer/ironic-python-agent/#image-builders

Instructions for setting up Ironic to use a given ramdisk are here:
http://docs.openstack.org/developer/ironic/deploy/install-guide.html#image-requirements

Please do try this out! For more information, see the links below.

Source code: http://git.openstack.org/cgit/openstack/ironic-python-agent
Documentation: http://docs.openstack.org/developer/ironic-python-agent/
PyPI package: https://pypi.python.org/pypi/ironic-python-agent/1.0.0
Bug tracker: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ironic-python-agent

// jim

[0] http://lists.openstack.org/pipermail/openstack-dev/2014-March/029270.html