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Metal3.io Becomes a CNCF Incubating Project

By Honza Pokorný

We are pleased to share some incredible news with our community! The CNCF Technical Oversight Committee has officially voted to accept Metal3 as an incubating project. This milestone represents years of hard work, collaboration, and innovation, and we couldn’t be more excited about what lies ahead! Our Journey from Sandbox...

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Introducing Baremetal Operator end-to-end test suite

By Lennart Jern

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...

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Scaling Kubernetes with Metal3: Simulating 1000 Clusters with Fake Ironic Agents

By Huy Mai

If 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...

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Scaling to 1000 clusters - Part 3

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. We continued in part 2 with how to fake workload clusters enough for convincing Cluster API’s controllers that they are healthy....

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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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