| Tempest Field Guide to Baremetal API tests |
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| What are these tests? |
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| These tests stress the OpenStack baremetal provisioning API provided by |
| Ironic. |
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| Why are these tests in tempest? |
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| The purpose of these tests is to exercise the various APIs provided by Ironic |
| for managing baremetal nodes. |
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| Scope of these tests |
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| The baremetal API test perform basic CRUD operations on the Ironic node |
| inventory. They do not actually perform hardware provisioning. It is important |
| to note that all Ironic API actions are admin operations meant to be used |
| either by cloud operators or other OpenStack services (i.e., Nova). |