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As a part of developing the Cluster API Provider Metal3 (CAPM3) v1alpha4 release, the Metal3 crew introduced a new project: its own IP Address Manager. This blog post will go through the motivations behind such a project, the features that it brings, its use in Metal3 and future work. What...
Read MoreMetal3 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...
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