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Learn about Ironic's servicing feature that enables firmware management operations on provisioned baremetal servers without requiring de-provisioning. Discover how this OpenInfra Foundation conference talk addresses the longstanding challenge of managing firmware updates, BIOS settings, and RAID configurations on active nodes that run long-term workloads like Telco/NFV and Enterprise applications. Explore how traditional Ironic firmware management required node de-provisioning, creating major disruptions for persistent workloads, and understand how the new servicing capability revolutionizes this process by allowing operations on already-provisioned nodes. Examine the extension of this functionality to Kubernetes clusters through Metal3 integration, making hardware management more flexible and less disruptive across different deployment scenarios. Watch demonstrations of firmware updates, BIOS configuration changes, and RAID setup procedures performed on active baremetal infrastructure without service interruption.
