Sabakan

Sabakan is an integration service to automate bare-metal server management. It uses etcd as a backend datastore for strong consistency and high availability.

Project Status: Initial development.

Features

• High availability

  Thanks to etcd, sabakan can run multiple instances while maintaining strong consistency. For instance, DHCP lease information are shared among sabakan instances to avoid conflicts.

• Machine inventory / IP address management (IPAM)

  Machines in a data center can be registered with sabakan's inventory. In addition, sabakan assigns IP addresses automatically to machines.

• DHCP service

  Sabakan provides DHCP service that supports UEFI HTTP Boot and iPXE HTTP Boot.

• HTTP service

  Sabakan serves OS images to machines via HTTP.

• Distributed asset management

  In order to help initialization of client servers, sabakan can work as a file server from which clients can download assets via HTTP. Assets are automatically synchronized between sabakan servers.

• Encryption key store

  Sabakan provides REST API to store and retrieve encryption keys to help automated disk encryption/decryption.

• Life-cycle management

  Sabakan provides API to change server status for life-cycle management.

• Audit logs

  To track problems and life-cycle events, sabakan keeps operation logs within its etcd storage.

Programs

This repository contains these programs:

• sabakan: the network service to manage servers.
• sabactl: CLI tool for sabakan.
• sabakan-cryptsetup: a utility to encrypt a block device using dm-crypt.

To see their usage, run them with -h option.

Documentation

docs directory contains tutorials and specifications.

Read getting started first.

License

Sabakan is licensed under MIT license.