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These folks seemed to tried that approach, but gave up on Ironic for a number of reasons:

https://www.packet.net/blog/how-we-failed-at-openstack

True; I think it is reasonable project to take on if you are willing to staff developers... if you are trying to build a "bare metal" public cloud, having developers on staff is going to be a prerequisite for quite some time going forward.

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