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BARE METAL HOST PROVISIONING FOR KUBERNETES

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WHY METAL3.IO?

There are a number of great open source tools for bare metal host provisioning,
including Ironic. Metal3.io aims to build on these technologies to provide a
Kubernetes native API for managing bare metal hosts via a provisioning stack
that is also running on Kubernetes. We believe that Kubernetes Native
Infrastructure, or managing your infrastructure just like your applications, is
a powerful next step in the evolution of infrastructure management.

The Metal3.io project is also building integration with the Kubernetes
cluster-api project, allowing Metal3.io to be used as an infrastructure backend
for Machine objects from the Cluster API.


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WHAT IS THE BAREMETAL OPERATOR?

The bare metal operator is documented at
https://github.com/metal3-io/baremetal-operator/blob/master/docs/api.md and it’s
the operator in charge of definitions of physical hosts, containing information
about how to reach the Out of Band management controller, URL of image to
provision, plus other properties related with hosts being used for provisioning
instances.


WHAT IS IPMI?

IPMI is the acronym for Intelligent Platform Management Interface which is used
to monitor hardware health (fans, voltage, temperature, etc). Specification is
available at
https://www.intel.com/content/www/us/en/products/docs/servers/ipmi/ipmi-home.html
and was created by a joint effort by several manufactures. It allows to also
define boot order and power status of the hardware.


WHAT IS OUT-OF-BAND MANAGEMENT CONTROLLER?

Enterprise hardware usually have an integrated or optional controller that
allows to reach the server even if it’s powered down, either via dedicated or
shared nic. This controller allows some checks on the server hardware and also
perform some settings like changing power status, changing Boot Order, etc. The
Baremetal Operator uses it to power on, reboot and provision the physical
servers to be used for running workloads on top. Commercial names include iDrac,
iLO, iRMC, etc and most of them should support IPMI.


WHAT IS AN OPERATOR?

An Operator is a method of packaging, deploying and managing a Kubernetes
application. A Kubernetes application is an application that is both deployed on
Kubernetes and managed using the Kubernetes APIs and kubectl tooling. You can
think of Operators as the runtime that manages this type of application on
Kubernetes. If you want to learn more about Operators you can check the CoreOS
Operators website https://coreos.com/operators/


WHAT'S NEW?

Blog


METAL3 INTRODUCES PIVOTING

Wed, 5/05/21


INTRODUCING THE METAL3 IP ADDRESS MANAGER

Mon, 6/07/20


RAW IMAGE STREAMING AVAILABLE IN METAL3

Sun, 5/07/20

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