Tinkerbell is a bare metal provisioning engine designed to automate the installation and configuration of physical machines.
It provides the components needed to discover hardware, boot systems over the network or from ISO media, expose metadata to provisioned machines, and coordinate provisioning workflows. The project is useful for teams that need a programmable way to manage bare metal infrastructure rather than relying on manual installation processes.
This is free and open source software.
Key Features
- Supports network booting and ISO booting.
- Provides a workflow engine for provisioning physical machines.
- Includes a metadata service for exposing machine-specific configuration.
- Offers DHCP with host reservation or ProxyDHCP support.
- Supports integration with third-party DHCP servers.
- Provides BMC support via Redfish, IPMI, IntelAMT, and other interfaces.
- Supports automatic hardware discovery.
- Includes serial over SSH functionality.
- Offers cloud-init integration.
Website: github.com/tinkerbell/tinkerbell
Support:
Developer: Tinkerbell project
License: Apache License 2.0
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