Can we use the connected engagement flows and data to establish a list of hardware known to work with metal3/ironic today ?

In order to make some recommendations and to drive confidence in a consumer decision to procure specific hardware to run Red Hat platforms, it would be desirable to have some sort of a list of known working configurations. This could include vendors, OOB component, configuration details etc. While not a substitute for a certification program, it would give us some level of deterministic yardstick around viability of a specific compute platform.

Given the connected customer experience, can we leverage some of the data there to validate what hardware is known to work with ironic/metal3 today ? 

The challenge we are running into stems from the wide sprawl of Red Fish versions, various oob / bmc capabilities, varying ipmi implementations, different management abstractions - specially in the hyper converged / high density scenarios. Moving forward as customers expect higher levels of automation across the DC floor, and as self-service abstracts are built out, it would be immensely beneficial for us to have and promote a list of known working hardware, even if it comes with no backing assurances and support.