Mission
The Metal3 Project's mission is to empower organizations with a flexible,
open-source solution for bare metal provisioning that combines
the benefits of bare metal performance with the ease of use and
automation provided by Kubernetes.
Goals
There are a number of great open source tools for bare metal host provisioning,
including Ironic.
Metal3 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 project is also building integration with the Kubernetes
cluster-api project, allowing Metal3 to be used as an infrastructure
backend for Machine objects from the Cluster API.
These components integrate
seamlessly to leverage the Kubernetes ecosystem and automate the provisioning
and management of bare-metal infrastructure.
