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1. The Bare Metal Provisioning service
2. Prerequisites for bare metal provisioning
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1. 2.1. Installation requirements
2. 2.2. Hardware requirements
3. 2.3. Networking requirements
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  1. 2.3.1. The default bare metal network
  2. 2.3.2. The custom composable bare metal network
3. Deploying an IPv4 overcloud with the Bare Metal Provisioning service
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1. 3.1. Creating the bare metal template
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  1. 3.1.1. Example template
2. 3.2. Network configuration
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  1. 3.2.1. Configuring a custom IPv4 provisioning network
3. 3.3. Enabling bare metal introspection in the overcloud
4. 3.4. Deploying the overcloud
5. 3.5. Testing the Bare Metal Provisioning service
4. Deploying an IPv6 overcloud with the Bare Metal Provisioning service
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1. 4.1. Creating the bare metal template
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  1. 4.1.1. Example template
2. 4.2. Configuring the undercloud for bare metal provisioning over IPv6
3. 4.3. Network configuration
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  1. 4.3.1. Configuring a custom IPv6 provisioning network
4. 4.4. Enabling bare metal introspection in the overcloud
5. 4.5. Deploying the overcloud
6. 4.6. Testing the Bare Metal Provisioning service
5. Configuring the Bare Metal Provisioning service after deployment
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1. 5.1. Configuring OpenStack networking
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  1. 5.1.1. Configuring OpenStack Networking to communicate with the Bare Metal Provisioning service on a flat bare metal network
  2. 5.1.2. Configuring OpenStack Networking to communicate with the Bare Metal Provisioning service on a custom composable bare metal network
2. 5.2. Configuring node cleaning
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  1. 5.2.1. Cleaning nodes manually
3. 5.3. Creating the bare metal flavor and resource class
4. 5.4. Creating the bare metal images
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  1. 5.4.1. Preparing the deploy images
  2. 5.4.2. Preparing the user image
    
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    5.4.2.1. Disk image environment variables
  3. 5.4.3. Installing the user image
5. 5.5. Configuring deploy interfaces
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  1. 5.5.1. Configuring the direct deploy interface on the overcloud
6. 5.6. Adding physical machines as bare metal nodes
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  1. 5.6.1. Enrolling a bare metal node with an inventory file
7. 5.7. Configuring Redfish virtual media boot
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  1. 5.7.1. Deploying a bare metal server with Redfish virtual media boot
8. 5.8. Using host aggregates to separate physical and virtual machine provisioning
6. Administering bare metal nodes
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1. 6.1. Launching bare metal instances
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  1. 6.1.1. Launching instances with the command line interface
  2. 6.1.2. Launching instances with the dashboard
2. 6.2. Configuring port groups in the Bare Metal Provisioning service
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  1. 6.2.1. Configuring port groups on switches manually
  2. 6.2.2. Configuring port groups in the Bare Metal Provisioning service
3. 6.3. Determining the host to IP address mapping
4. 6.4. Attaching and detaching virtual network interfaces
5. 6.5. Configuring notifications for the Bare Metal Provisioning service
6. 6.6. Configuring automatic power fault recovery
7. 6.7. Introspecting overcloud nodes
7. Booting from cinder volumes
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8. ML2 networking-ansible
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1. 8.1. Modular Layer 2 (ML2) networking-ansible
2. 8.2. Networking requirements for networking-ansible
3. 8.3. Openstack Bare Metal (ironic) requirements for networking-ansible
4. 8.4. Enabling networking-ansible ML2 functionality
5. 8.5. Configuring networks for networking-ansible
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6. 8.6. Testing networking-ansible ML2 functions
9. Troubleshooting the Bare Metal Provisioning service
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10. Bare metal drivers
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Bare Metal Provisioning

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Install, Configure, and Use the Bare Metal Service (ironic)

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