smee
DHCP and iPXE Server (by tinkerbell)
netboot
Packages and utilities for network booting (by danderson)
| smee | netboot | |
|---|---|---|
| 9 | 3 | |
| 236 | 1,453 | |
| 3.0% | - | |
| 9.0 | 2.5 | |
| 8 days ago | 7 months ago | |
| Go | 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.
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.
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.
netboot
Posts with mentions or reviews of netboot.
We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives
and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-01-18.
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ReactOS
There's also pixiecore [0] with a similar idea but with pxe instead of usb.
[0]: https://github.com/danderson/netboot/tree/master/pixiecore
- PXE boot via pixiecore?
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netbootd: automate OS provisioning (PXE booting), DHCP, TFTP, HTTP server
More inline with the power of self-contained Go single-binary solution is Pixiecore, GoPXE and Trixiecore. Those are simpler to run, but a bit stale or not as flexible with different operating systems.
What are some alternatives?
When comparing smee and netboot you can also consider the following projects:
tensors - Tensors in Haskell
netbootd - Lightweight network boot/install server (DHCP, TFTP, HTTP)
akri - A Kubernetes Resource Interface for the Edge
netboot.xyz - Your favorite operating systems in one place. A network-based bootable operating system installer based on iPXE.
bofied - Modern network boot server.
Cobbler - Cobbler is a versatile Linux deployment server
shifu - Kubernetes-native IoT gateway
matchbox - Network boot and provision Fedora CoreOS and Flatcar Linux clusters
Collins - groovy kind of love
plunder - A Modern automation platform
wix3 - WiX Toolset v3.x