Tag: Infrastructure

4 posts

• Farewell to Manual OS Installation: The Complete Guide to PXE+Kickstart+Cloud-init Automation

  Sep 9, 2026

  Infrastructure

  Manual OS installation takes 30-60 min per server. PXE+Kickstart+Cloud-init reduces this to 5-15 min unattended. Learn to build automated bare metal provisioning.

• MAAS vs Tinkerbell vs Ironic: The Ultimate Guide to Bare Metal Orchestration Engine Selection

  Sep 8, 2026

  Infrastructure

  MAAS has 499 GitHub stars, Tinkerbell 989, Ironic 564, Foreman 2,900. Compare the four bare metal orchestration engines to find your best fit.

• CMDB-Driven Bare Metal Management: How to Make 10,000 Servers "Check In" Themselves

  Sep 7, 2026

  Infrastructure

  Only 24% of IT leaders trust their CMDB data. 30% of data center servers are comatose. This guide shows how automated discovery achieves 87% CMDB accuracy.

• From Bare Metal to Cloud: Automating Full Lifecycle Management of Physical Servers at Scale

  Sep 6, 2026

  Infrastructure

  Bare metal cloud: $14.32B in 2025 at 20.7% CAGR. Covers CMDB automation, provisioning engines (MAAS/Tinkerbell/Ironic), multi-AZ architecture, self-service.