Deploying and Managing Baremetal Kubernetes with Ironic

Learn how G-Research leverages Ironic to manage their extensive baremetal infrastructure in this 30-minute conference talk. Discover the journey of transitioning Armada clusters from virtual machines to baremetal, supporting millions of daily batch jobs across thousands of nodes. Explore the comprehensive lifecycle management of baremetal hardware, from initial power-on verification to network transitions, hardware compliance, and firmware updates. Gain valuable insights into both successful strategies and challenging obstacles encountered during the implementation of baremetal Kubernetes clusters, with practical lessons shared by speaker Scott Solkhon from G-Research's real-world deployment experience.