Metal3 Flatcar Demo with Cluster API

This repository provides a runnable local demo that provisions two docker-vm-runner target VMs with Metal3, Ironic Standalone Operator, Bare Metal Operator, Cluster API, CAPM3, and Flatcar Container Linux.

The demo workflow is:

1. prepare a management cluster on the management network;
2. start two Redfish/iPXE-capable target VMs;
3. install CAPI, CAPM3, Ironic Standalone Operator, and Bare Metal Operator;
4. create Ironic with IrSO for PXE/iPXE provisioning;
5. register control-plane and worker hosts as BareMetalHost inventory;
6. select the official Flatcar OpenStack qcow2 image and Ignition bootstrap path;
7. create a two-node CAPM3 workload cluster;
8. install CNI and check Metal3, CAPI, and Kubernetes state.

The runbook uses kind for the management cluster and Docker Compose to start the docker-vm-runner target hosts.

Start here:

• Documentation index
• Runbook
• Architecture
• References
• Demo manifests