metal-stack mini-lab

The mini-lab is a small, virtual setup to locally run the metal-stack. It deploys the metal control plane and a metal-stack partition with two simulated leaf switches. The lab can be used for trying out metal-stack, demonstration purposes or development.

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Bring the cloud to your data center.

Cloud superpowers for your servers.

metal-stack enables you to operate your own cloud infrastructure on bare-metal servers, making you independent from hyperscalers and cloud providers. See it for yourself and test the metal-stack mini-lab today!

Requirements

Linux machine

With hardware virtualization support

KVM as hypervisor

For the VMs

Docker

For using kind and our deployment base image

kind

For hosting the metal control plane

containerlab

For provisioning networking labs built with containers

Features you will love about metal-stack

Bare-metal performance - maximum power for your workloads

Use native hardware performance without the limitations of virtualization.

Highest security through physical isolation

One cluster per machine - full separation, less attack surface, no “noisy neighbors”.

Full control with on-premises cloud

Retain data sovereignty and integrate seamlessly into existing networks.

Kubernetes as a service - simply scale up

With Gardener, you can operate Kubernetes clusters on bare metal like a hyperscaler.

Closed source & vendor lock-in? Not with us

100% open source - full transparency, no vendor lock-in.

Powerful networking with BGP

State-of-the-art network architecture: routing-to-the-host & load balancing directly integrated.

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