Tinkerbell is a bare metal provisioning engine. It supports network and ISO booting and BMC interactions as well as a metadata service, and a workflow engine for provisioning. Some of the features include:
- Cloud-init integration
- DHCP with Host reservation or ProxyDHCP
- Third party DHCP server integration
- BMC support via Redfish, IPMI, IntelAMT, and more
- Auto discovery of Hardware
- Serial over SSH
For more details, see the Tinkerbell documentation.
A list of adopters and a brief description of their use cases can be found in our adopters document.
Before getting started, please read and understand our Code of Conduct.
If you are interested in contributing to Tinkerbell, please see our contributing guidelines.
The Tinkerbell project has a set of design principles that guide the development of the project. These principles are outlined in our design philosophy document.
The Tinkerbell project is governed by a group of Maintainers and Committers. How they are selected and govern is outlined in our governance document.
The Tinkerbell project follows a release process that is outlined in our release process document.
To follow along and contribute to the Tinkerbell roadmap, please see our roadmap repository.
For security issues, please see our security document.