After the philosophical first part, now is time to get to work. Let's see how to use Ironic to show the benefits about managing physical machines using OpenStack API's using an Ansible implementation.

A reflection about how to introduce OpenStack in a company starting with bare metal provisioning. Ironic is the component to deploy physical servers, why starting with a standalone Metal as a Service can make the difference?

Now is becoming clear, but some years ago, people still was thinking that OpenStack was a kind of VMware open platform to create virtual machines. Never was the case, Openstack is just a framework to build Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS).