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In the beginning, there was metal3-dev-env. It could set up a virtualized “baremetal” lab and test all the components together. As Metal3 matured, it grew in complexity and capabilities, with release branches, API versions, etc. Metal3-dev-env did everything from cloning the repositories and building the container images, to deploying the...
Read MoreIf you’ve ever tried scaling out Kubernetes clusters in a bare-metal environment, you’ll know that large-scale testing comes with serious challenges. Most of us don’t have access to enough physical servers—or even virtual machines—to simulate the kinds of large-scale environments we need for stress testing, especially when deploying hundreds or...
Read MoreIn part 1, we introduced the Bare Metal Operator test mode and saw how it can be used to play with BareMetalHosts without Ironic and without any actual hosts. We continued in part 2 with how to fake workload clusters enough for convincing Cluster API’s controllers that they are healthy....
Read MoreThe Metal3 project was present at KubeCon EU 2024 with multiple maintainers, contributors and users! For many of us, this was the first time we met in the physical world, despite working together for years already. This was very valuable and appreciated by many of us, I am sure. We...
Read MoreIntroduction If you’re a developer or contributor to the Metal3 project, you may need to run the Metal3 website locally to test changes and ensure everything looks as expected before deploying them. In this guide, we’ll walk you through the process of setting up and running Metal3’s website locally on...
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