awesome-baremetal

Bare-metal is awesome. Let's share our favourite tools.

Rules

• Ordered alphabetically (eventually consistent)
• Recent development or release (within the last 6 months) - or deemed relevant by curator
• No defunct or abandoned projects
• Must show signs of traction or corporate use, no "my scripts for my homelab that only I use" submissions.
• No advertisements
• Format: link to GitHub or website - "quote from GitHub repo or website"

Curator: Alex Ellis - CNCF Ambassador, OpenFaaS & Inlets Founder.

Self-hosted

• bmc-toolbox - "bmc-toolbox is bunch of tools to ease BMC management"
• cobbler - "Cobbler is a Linux installation server that allows for rapid setup of network installation environments"
• confluent - "Service for onboarding and management of baremetal server BMCs and PXE"
• Digital Rebar - "Digital Rebar is the data center automation, provisioning and infrastructure as code (IaC) platform designed with a cloud native architecture replacing Cobbler, Foreman, MaaS or similar technologies"
• foreman - "From provisioning and configuration to orchestration and monitoring, Foreman integrates with your existing infrastructure to make operations easier"
• ironic "A service for managing and provisioning Bare Metal servers" - from OpenStack Foundation
• LinuxKit - "A toolkit for building secure, portable and lean operating systems for containers" - PXE support, focus on immutable infrastructure.
• Lokomotive - "Lokomotive is a 100% open-source Kubernetes distribution from the folks at Kinvolk"
• MaaS - "Metal as a Service" by Canonical
• Matchbox - "Matchbox is a service that matches bare-metal machines to profiles that PXE boot and provision clusters"
• metalk8s - "MetalK8s was launched to make it easier to run Kubernetes (K8s) on bare-metal servers that need persistent storage" by Scality
• Metal Stack - "we believe kubernetes runs best on bare metal. we build an api to manage bare metal hardware and kubernetes on top of that."
• Metal³ - "Bare Metal Host Provisioning for Kubernetes" - with ClusterAPI support and built with Ironic
• mr-provisioner - "Bare metal provisioning tool"
• netboot.xyz - "a way to PXE boot various operating system installers or utilities from one place within the BIOS without the need of having to go retrieve the media to run the tool."
• pixiecore "Pixiecore is an tool to manage network booting of machines" by Dave Anderson
• plundr - "Plunder is a single-binary server that is all designed in order to make the provisioning of servers, platforms and applications easier." - with ClusterAPI support
• RackHD - "a technology stack for enabling automated hardware management and orchestration through cohesive APIs. It serves as an abstraction layer between other management layers and the underlying, vendor-specific physical hardware."
• Talos Systems - "A New Tool for Kubernetes Bare Metal" - with ClusterAPI support
• Tinkerbell - "Tinkerbell is a bare metal provisioning engine. It’s built and maintained with love by the team at Packet."

Networking for bare-metal cloud

• HAProxy - "The Reliable, High Performance TCP/HTTP Load Balancer" - often used in place of hardware LB.
• inlets PRO - "inlets-pro is a Cloud Native Tunnel for L4 TCP traffic with built-in link encryption"
• inlets-operator - "Public IPs for your private Kubernetes Services using inlets or inlets PRO"
• inlets - "Cloud Native Tunnel written in Go." - HTTP tunnel
• kube-vip - "Kubernetes Control Plane Virtual IP and Load-Balancer"
• MetalLB - "MetalLB is a load-balancer implementation for bare metal Kubernetes clusters, using standard routing protocols."
• Squid - "a caching proxy for the Web supporting HTTP, HTTPS, FTP, and more. It reduces bandwidth and improves response times by caching and reusing frequently-requested web pages." - used with bare-metal to cache packages and ISO images.

Bare-metal cloud

• AlibabaCloud bare metal - x86_64 & arm64
• AWS bare metal - x86_64 & arm64
• cherryservers.com - x86_64
• Packet bare metal infrastructure - x86_64 & arm64
• Scaleway.com - x86_64 & arm64
• Vultr.com - x86_64

Open Source Virtualization

This section is for projects like Proxmox, for where the community feel strongly, but their submission doesn't fit into the bare-metal category.

• Proxmox VE - "Proxmox VE is a complete open-source platform for all-inclusive enterprise virtualization that tightly integrates KVM hypervisor and LXC containers, software-defined storage and networking functionality on a single platform"

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