Platform9 Managed Bare Metal with Metal³ Benefits

This article describes the benefits of Platform9 Managed Bare-Metal with Metal³. For a full introduction, we recommend that you read Platform9 Metal³ Overview and Platform9 Metal³ Architecture first.

Platform9 leverages the open source Metal³ project to achieve these capabilities which provides a Kubernetes Native API for managing bare metal hosts from a provisioning stack that is also running on Kubernetes. With Platform9 Managed Bare Metal with Metal³ you can deploy and redeploy your bare metal servers, at a single site or at 1000s of sites, at scale with ease of Kubernetes orchestration.

Kubernetes native stack and interfaces

Metal³ provides Platform9 uses a truly unified operating model by providing bare metal host provisioning integration for Kubernetes. Essentially turning traditional bare metal infrastructure into infrastructure as a service for bare metal.

Quickly provision bare metal servers at scale

Platform9 Metal³ provides a declarative interface that is better for managing bare metal at scale. In addition it reduces the time required to provision a new server limited manual effort, which is essential for edge deployments. Whether you are expanding your data center footprint or running bare metal servers in edge locations, you can now provision hundreds of servers seamlessly without wasting the cycles of your best technical resources.

Ironic Compatible

By leveraging Ironic under the covers Metal³ benefits from leveraging a mature project that is widely adopted and integrated by industry vendors, provides good community support, and supports a variety of hardware. Enterprise vendors continue to support the project which provides a large hardware support base that has reliability and security in mind when created. Since Ironic if very API-focused it allows Metal³ to easily integrate and take advantage of Ironic's benefits.