# alexellis/awesome-baremetal

Bare-metal is awesome. Let's share our favourite tools.

Repository: https://github.com/alexellis/awesome-baremetal
Canonical: https://ross.abutalabs.com/products/awesome-baremetal
Homepage: https://thenewstack.io/bare-metal-in-a-cloud-native-world/
License: MIT
License Family: permissive
Last push: 2025-03-24T08:47:46+00:00

## Health v2 (maintenance only)
Score: 29/100 (v2, computed 2026-09-02T17:46:02.011165+00:00)
- activity 13, release rhythm 8, longevity 100
- inputs: {"age_days": 2331, "days_push": 527, "days_rel": null, "gap_med": null, "n_releases_24m": 0}
- flags: none
- formula: round(0.45*activity + 0.35*rhythm + 0.20*longevity); archived -> min(score, 10)

## Adoption (not part of the score)
Stars 1916, forks 118 (observed 2026-08-28T04:05:53.828948+00:00)

## What it is
A curated awesome-list of tools for bare-metal server management and provisioning, maintained by Alex Ellis. It catalogs self-hosted projects like Cobbler, Foreman, Ironic, and MAAS for BMC management, PXE booting, and metal-as-a-service provisioning.

## Use cases
- find tools for bare-metal server provisioning
- discover self-hosted alternatives to cloud metal services
- compare PXE boot and BMC management tools
- learn how to run Kubernetes on bare metal
- find open source metal-as-a-service platforms

## When to choose
- you want a curated, actively maintained directory of bare-metal tooling
- you are evaluating provisioning or BMC management options
- you need a starting point for bare-metal Kubernetes research

## When to avoid
- you need a tool rather than a list of links
- you want commercial vendor comparisons or benchmarks
- you need tutorials rather than project references

## Facets
- artifact type: learning-resource
- maturity: active
- function: developer-tools, infrastructure-as-code, deployment
- domain: infrastructure-as-code, self-hosted, hardware
- platform: self-hosted, cli
- tags: awesome-list, bare-metal, provisioning, curated-list, pxe, devops, linux

## Member repositories
- alexellis/awesome-baremetal (main) score 29

## Provenance
- Observed fields: from GitHub, fetched 2026-08-28T04:05:53.828948+00:00.
- Health v2: computed from the inputs above; adoption is never an input.
- Inferred fields (summary, facets, guidance): AI-extracted, prompt v1, taxonomy v1, on 2026-08-30T03:10:10.482167+00:00, confidence not recorded.
  - readme: https://github.com/alexellis/awesome-baremetal (fetched 2026-08-28T04:05:53.828948+00:00, sha 25b214d9df1e)
  - homepage: https://thenewstack.io/bare-metal-in-a-cloud-native-world/ (fetched 2026-08-29T10:49:49.388115+00:00, sha 337700dec96d)
- Data as of 2026-08-30T08:39:29.467469+00:00.