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Metal3 supports multiple types of images for deployment, the most popular being QCOW2. We have recently added support for a feature of Ironic that improves deployments on constrained environments, raw image streaming. We’ll first dive into how Ironic deploys the images on the target hosts, and how raw image streaming...
Read MoreIntroduction This blog post describes how to deploy a bare metal cluster, a virtual one for simplicity, using Metal³/metal3-dev-env. We will briefly discuss the steps involved in setting up the cluster as well as some of the customization available. If you want to know more about the architecture of Metal³,...
Read MoreRenaming of Cluster API provider Backwards compatibility for v1alpha3There is no backwards compatibility between v1alpha3 and v1alpha2 releases of the Cluster API provider for Metal3. For the v1alpha3 release of Cluster API, the Metal3 provider was renamed from cluster-api-provider-baremetal to cluster-api-provider-metal3. The Custom Resource Definitions were also modified. This post...
Read MoreConference talk: Metal³: Kubernetes Native Bare Metal Cluster Management - Maël Kimmerlin On the 20th of January at the Kubernetes and CNCF Finland Meetup, Maël Kimmerlin gave a brilliant presentation about the status of the Metal³ project. In this presentation, Maël starts giving a short introduction of the Cluster API...
Read MoreIntroduction to metal3-dev-env The metal3-dev-env is a collection of scripts in a GitHub repository inside the Metal³ project that aims to allow contributors and other interested users to run a fully functional Metal³ environment for testing and have a first contact with the project. Actually, metal3-dev-env sets up an emulated...
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