Ironic Node Onboarding: enroll to available Diagram

Walkthrough 1/2 — enroll to manageable

• 1. You create the node with a driver and BMC credentials.
• 2. enroll = a database row Ironic has never contacted.
• 3. You send manage. The node moves to verifying.
• 4. The conductor dials the BMC for the current power state.
• 5. Good credentials give manageable; bad ones return to enroll.
• 6. Optional inspect: IPA reports CPU, RAM, disks and NICs.

Walkthrough 2/2 — manageable to available

• 7. Inspection writes properties and one port per NIC.
• 8. You send provide when the node should be schedulable.
• 9. provide runs automated cleaning first, always.
• 10. Cleaning wipes disks, may reset RAID and firmware.
• 11. Success gives available: the node can now be deployed.
• 12. Failure gives clean failed plus maintenance, on purpose.

The three verbs that matter

• manage — prove the BMC credentials really work.
• inspect — let the hardware describe itself.
• provide — declare it fit; cleaning is the entry price.