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On Mon, Oct 19, 2020 at 02:06:52PM +1300, Steve Baker wrote:
> As far as I'm aware, an IPMI host:port endpoint will manage exactly one
> baremetal host

That's correct. The idea is that we would spawn one virtual ipmi
instance per host to be controlled.

> These days with the rise of Redfish I think IPMI is considered a
> legacy interface now.
 
It absolutely is, but it is also still commonly supported.

> If there are provisioning tools frequently used by the target audience of
> Mass Open Cloud which have poor Ironic API support then we'd like to know
> what those tools are so we can improve that support.

The answer here is "everything", including other instances of Ironic,
locally developed tools, things like Foreman, etc.

We have a couple of summit sessions coming up tomorrow if you're
interested in learning more about what we're about.

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