matchbox

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.

Features

• Chainload via iPXE and match hardware labels
• Provision Fedora CoreOS and Flatcar Linux (powered by Ignition)
• Authenticated gRPC API for clients (e.g. Terraform)

Documentation

• Docs
• Configuration
• HTTP API / gRPC API

Installation

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

Tutorials

Getting started provisioning machines with Flatcar Linux.

• Local QEMU/KVM
  • matchbox with Docker
• Clusters
  • etcd3 - Install a 3-node etcd3 cluster
  • etcd3 - Install a 3-node etcd3 cluster (terraform-based)

Contrib

• dnsmasq - Run DHCP, TFTP, and DNS services as a container
• terraform-provider-matchbox - Terraform provider plugin for Matchbox