The Bare Metal Operator implements a Kubernetes API for managing bare metal
hosts. It maintains an inventory of available hosts as instances of the
BareMetalHost Custom Resource Definition. The Bare Metal Operator knows how
to:
- Inspect the host’s hardware details and report them on the corresponding
BareMetalHost. This includes information about CPUs, RAM, disks, NICs, and more. - Provision hosts with a desired image.
- Clean a host’s disk contents before or after provisioning.
More capabilities are being added regularly. See open issues and pull requests for more information on work in progress.
For more information about Metal³, the Bare Metal Operator, and other related components, see the Metal³ docs.
Currently a PR in BMO is tested with CAPM3 integration tests. There are two types of CAPM3 integration test, CAPM3 e2e integration tests and ansible integration tests. You will see one of each kind as a required test on a BMO PR. Eventually these tests will be replaced with BMO's own e2e tests. BMO e2e tests are currently under active development. Here are the tests which run on different branches in BMO:
- /test-centos-e2e-integration-main runs CAPM3 e2e integration tests with CAPM3 main branch and BMO main branch on Centos
- /test-ubuntu-integration-main runs ansible integration tests with CAPM3 main branch and BMO main branch on Ubuntu
Release-0.4 branch:
- /test-centos-e2e-integration-release-1-5 runs CAPM3 e2e integration tests with CAPM3 release-1.5 branch and BMO release-0.4 branch on Centos
- /test-ubuntu-integration-release-1-5 runs ansible integration tests with CAPM3 release-1.5 branch and BMO release-0.4 branch on Ubuntu
Whenever there is a change in config/ directory, please remember to run the
following command:
make manifests
This will render the config/render/capm3.yaml. Please do not change the
content of config/render/capm3.yaml manually.