Automate a K8s cluster on bare metal

[@davidogutu9110]

this is awesome!

[@strangersomeone7217]

Can I provision a pool of computer instance on GCP (i.e. 20 instances) and run sidero like it's bare metal?

[@masoudbaharlouie3371]

For that, you’d use Cluster API directly, combined with Talos OS. Basically, you’d use GCP as infrastructure provider, and Talos as both bootstrap provider, and control-plane provider; then, you’d have what you saw in the demo on the cloud. Sidero Metal is trying to bring that cloud experience to the bare metal installations.

[@mioszlinkiewicz4272]

Such automation is nothing new and can be rather achieved in many ways having the network configured, what is more, I believe by 'network configured' you meant working OS deployed or Intel vPro or iDRAC preconfigured nodes, am I correct? I have seen implementations of such stack using MaaS, iDrac native Python API, Ansible-Playbooks for K8s baremetal etc. Could you explain what makes Sidero and this whole stack unique?

[@SanderMaijers]

I've also used such systems but there were not integrated with or even used together with Kubernetes. What's the relation with Kubernetes in the design you describe?