Provision and manage bare metal, anywhere
Standardize infrastructure management using the same API-centric, declarative configuration and automation approach pioneered by the Kubernetes community.
Standardize infrastructure management using the same API-centric, declarative configuration and automation approach pioneered by the Kubernetes community.
Tinkerbell is a bare metal provisioning engine, built and maintained by the Tinkerbell Community . The core Tinkerbell stack is comprised of the following services: Smee, Tootles, Hook, and Tink.
Tinkerbell has a few core components: a DHCP server (Smee
), a metadata service (Tootles
), an in-memory operating system installation environment (HookOS
) and a workflow engine (Tink Server
/Tink Worker
).
The workflow engine is comprised of a controller, server and worker. The server and agent communicate over gRPC.
kubectl is used to create workflows along with hardware and template objects.
There are also a few optional components: 2 Power and Boot services (PBnJ
and Rufio
) that communicate with BMCs. And a Cluster API provider (CAPT
) for provisioning and managing Kubernetes clusters.