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Bare metal provisioning · read in order

OpenStack Ironic, end to end

Eight explorable diagrams that build one mental model of how Ironic turns a rack of anonymous servers into machines you can ask for by name. Each one is interactive: search, trace a route, and play the guided story chapters.

8 diagrams 40 guided story chapters every diagram carries a numbered walkthrough grounded in source, not blog posts

If you only have an hour

Read 01 → 02 → 04. That is the shape of the system, the life of a node, and one deploy from request to running OS. Everything else is detail hanging off those three.

Every diagram is explorable

These are not pictures. Inside any diagram:

/ search nodes R route probe M radar L lens F presentation drag to pan · scroll to zoom story chapters ▸