Ironic

Custom Hardware Types

UnderStack ships additional Ironic hardware types via the ironic-understack
Python package, registered as ironic.hardware.types entry points.

netdev

The netdev hardware type is a stub type for network devices (firewalls,
load balancers) that Ironic tracks solely for Neutron physical port binding. It uses
noop or no-* interfaces for everything except network, which is set to
neutron. This means nodes of this type go through no deployment, inspection,
BIOS, RAID, rescue, or firmware lifecycle — Ironic only manages their port
bindings.

To use it, add netdev to enabled_hardware_types in ironic.conf and
ensure noop deploy and neutron network interfaces are also enabled.