In 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....
The 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...
Introduction 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...
In 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. Now we will take a look at the other end of the stack and how we can fake the workload cluster...
We want to ensure that Metal3 can scale to thousands of nodes and clusters. However, running tests with thousands of real servers is expensive and we don’t have access to any such large environment in the project. So instead we have been focusing on faking the hardware while trying to...