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What does the landscape look like now for "terraform for bare metal"?. Is ansible/chef still the main name in town? I just wanna netboot some lightweight image, set up some basic network discovery on a control plane, and turn every connected box into a flexible worker bee I can deploy whatever cluster control layer (k8s/nomad) on top of and start slinging containers.

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I really like this description of how baremetal infrastructure should work, and this is where I think (shameless self promotion) Triton DataCenter[1] plays really well today on-prem.

PXE booted lightweight compute nodes with a robust API, including operator portal, user portal, and cli.

Keep an eye out for the work we are doing with Triton Linux + K8s. Very lightweight Triton Linux compute node + baremetal k8s deployments on Triton.

[1] https://www.tritondatacenter.com

Thanks! This is pretty sleek! I'm going to have to dust off my homelab and play around with this.

What is the stack written in? Looks like a lot of javascript and makefiles from the github side of things but idk if that's the whole kit and caboodle.

As you've seen, we're open source -- https://github.com/tritondatacenter. There are tons of repos.. Mostly Nodejs and some golang/rust!

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