8 Metal3 #
Metal3 is a CNCF project which provides bare-metal infrastructure management capabilities for Kubernetes.
Metal3 provides Kubernetes-native resources to manage the lifecycle of bare-metal servers which support management via out-of-band protocols such as Redfish.
It also has mature support for Cluster API (CAPI) which enables management of infrastructure resources across multiple infrastructure providers via broadly adopted vendor-neutral APIs.
8.1 How does SUSE Edge use Metal3? #
This method is useful for scenarios where the target hardware supports out-of-band management, and a fully automated infrastructure management flow is desired.
This method provides declarative APIs that enable inventory and state management of bare-metal servers, including automated inspection, cleaning and provisioning/deprovisioning.
8.2 Known issues #
The upstream IP Address Management controller is currently not supported, because it is not yet compatible with our choice of network configuration tooling.
Relatedly, the IPAM resources and Metal3DataTemplate networkData fields are not supported.
Only deployment via redfish-virtualmedia is currently supported.