| Collins | smee | |
|---|---|---|
| 2 | 9 | |
| 572 | 236 | |
| 0.0% | 3.0% | |
| 0.0 | 9.0 | |
| about 3 years ago | 6 days ago | |
| Scala | Go | |
| Apache License 2.0 | Apache License 2.0 |
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Stars - the number of stars that a project has on GitHub. Growth - month over month growth in stars.
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For example, an activity of 9.0 indicates that a project is amongst the top 10% of the most actively developed projects that we are tracking.
Stars - the number of stars that a project has on GitHub. Growth - month over month growth in stars.
Activity is a relative number indicating how actively a project is being developed. Recent commits have higher weight than older ones.
For example, an activity of 9.0 indicates that a project is amongst the top 10% of the most actively developed projects that we are tracking.
Collins
Posts with mentions or reviews of Collins.
We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives
and similar projects. The last one was on 2022-09-23.
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You get 500 new servers tomorrow. How do you onboard them DevOps style?
A previous job we used (and from what I know, they still use) Tumblr Collins. It does the right thing by providing a way to take inventory items from one state to the next.
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Help picking cobbler replacement
I used Collins at a previous job. But it also probably requires tweaks to work with UEFI/NVMe.
smee
Posts with mentions or reviews of smee.
We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives
and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-01-16.
- Tinkerbell: Provision and manage bare metal, anywhere
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Deploying VMs with Flux CD?
https://tinkerbell.org/ https://youtu.be/NCFUUjTw6hA
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Open source inventory/deployment tool/endpoint manager?
I'm curious about this thread because we are looking also for a free alternative for DRP, perhaps https://tinkerbell.org/ once more stable.
- Can kubernetes manage hardware devices?
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Why use something like proxmox over docker or podman?
i run kubernetes on bare metal, built on top of flatcar linux. i manage my nodes with the excellent tinkerbell, and have access to the hardware via an HDMI KVM (for NUCs) and IPMI (on the real servers).
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LF a KVM solution for 14+ devices.
I run Kubernetes on bare metal (intel nucs) and have a few other devices (storage cluster, power, networking), use tinkerbell for iPXE... the one thing i'm missing is physical management of the machines while remote.
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Could I use Power Distribution Professional for hard resetting servers over internet?
use tinkerbell.
- You get 500 new servers tomorrow. How do you onboard them DevOps style?
- Oh dang! I could use this! | tinkerbell/boots: The DHCP and iPXE server for Tinkerbell.
What are some alternatives?
When comparing Collins and smee you can also consider the following projects:
Ralph - Ralph is the CMDB / Asset Management system for data center and back office hardware.
tensors - Tensors in Haskell
Sicekit
akri - A Kubernetes Resource Interface for the Edge
Clusto - Clusto is a cluster management tool. It helps you keep track of your inventory, where it is, how it's connected, and provides an abstracted interface for interacting with the elements of the infrastructure.
bofied - Modern network boot server.
matchbox - Network boot and provision Fedora CoreOS and Flatcar Linux clusters
shifu - Kubernetes-native IoT gateway