Taking Bare Metal to the Clouds with Tinkerbell

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Tinkerbell provisions bare metal by intercepting DHCP and netbooting machines, mapping MACs to workflows and running an in-memory OS to execute actions; core services are boots/tink/oz/hegel/pbnj. Crocodile automates OS packaging so Red Hat, Windows Server, Debian, Flatcar, CentOS, Ubuntu and more install in minutes (~10% of previous time) and Action Hub exposes reusable containers for workflow steps; Cluster API support is experimental. Project enters CNCF sandbox end‑2020 and targets incubation in Q2‑2021; a local Vagrant sandbox runs with ~16 GB RAM.

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1. 0:00Start
2. 1:50Why Are People Interested in Running Their Own Hardware
3. 3:59Edge Computing
4. 8:57Networking
5. 11:22Server Provisioning
6. 11:47User-Facing Api
7. 15:08Net Booting
8. 20:58Cluster Api
9. 25:45Community Calls
10. 26:47Local Vagrant Installation
11. 27:19Sandbox

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