matchbox is a service that matches bare-metal machines to profiles that PXE boot and provision clusters. Machines are matched by labels like MAC or UUID during PXE and profiles specify a kernel/initrd, iPXE config, and Container Linux or Fedora CoreOS config.
- Chainload via iPXE and match hardware labels
- Provision Fedora CoreOS and Flatcar Linux (powered by Ignition)
- Authenticated gRPC API for clients (e.g. Terraform)
Matchbox can be installed from a binary or a container image.
- Install Matchbox on Kubernetes, on a Linux host, or as a container
- Setup a PXE-enabled network
Getting started provisioning machines with Flatcar Linux.
- Local QEMU/KVM
- Clusters
- dnsmasq - Run DHCP, TFTP, and DNS services as a container
- terraform-provider-matchbox - Terraform provider plugin for Matchbox