matchbox 
Network boot and provision Container Linux clusters on virtual or physical hardware.
Announcement: A new Matchbox Terraform Provider is available for Terraform users.
matchbox
matchbox is a service that matches machines (based on labels like MAC, UUID, etc.) to profiles to PXE boot and provision Container Linux clusters. Profiles specify the kernel/initrd, kernel arguments, iPXE config, GRUB config, Container Linux Config, Cloud-Config, or other configs a machine should use. Matchbox can be installed as a binary, RPM, container image, or deployed on a Kubernetes cluster and it provides an authenticated gRPC API for clients like terraform.
- Documentation
- matchbox Service
- Profiles
- Groups
- Config Templates
- Configuration
- HTTP API
- gRPC API
- Background: Machine Lifecycle
- Background: PXE Booting
Installation
- Installation
- Installing on CoreOS / Linux distros
- Installing on Kubernetes
- Running with rkt / docker
- Network Setup
Tutorials
Local QEMU/KVM
Example Clusters
Network boot the examples with QEMU/KVM VMs to try them on your Linux laptop.
- Multi-node self-hosted Kubernetes cluster
- Upgrading self-hosted Kubernetes clusters
- Multi-node Kubernetes cluster
- Multi-node rktnetes cluster (i.e. Kubernetes with rkt as the container runtime)
Contrib
- dnsmasq - Run DHCP, TFTP, and DNS services with docker or rkt
Enterprise
Tectonic is the enterprise-ready Kubernetes offering from CoreOS (free for 10 nodes!). The Tectonic Installer app integrates directly with matchbox through its gRPC API to provide a rich graphical client for populating matchbox with machine configs.
Learn more from our docs or blog.
