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Metal3 at KubeCon EU 2024

By Lennart Jern

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...

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How to run Metal3 website locally with Jekyll

By Salima Rabiu

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...

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Scaling to 1000 clusters - Part 2

By Lennart Jern

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...

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Scaling to 1000 clusters - Part 1

By Lennart Jern

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...

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One cluster - multiple providers

By Lennart Jern

Running on bare metal has both benefits and drawbacks. You can get the best performance possible out of the hardware, but it can also be quite expensive and maybe not necessary for all workloads. Perhaps a hybrid cluster could give you the best of both? Raw power for the workload...

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