Tinkerbell is a bare metal provisioning engine. It supports network and ISO booting and BMC interactions as well as a metadata service and a workflow engine for provisioning. Some of the features include:

• Cloud-init integration
• DHCP with Host reservation or ProxyDHCP
• Third-party DHCP server integration
• BMC support via Redfish, IPMI, IntelAMT, and more
• Auto-discovery of Hardware
• Serial over SSH

For more details, see the Tinkerbell documentation.

A list of adopters and a brief description of their use cases is in our adopters document.

Before getting started, read and understand our Code of Conduct.

The Tinkerbell community meets for a video call weekly on Tuesdays. The details are in our community meeting doc.

If you are interested in contributing to Tinkerbell, see our contributing guidelines.

The Tinkerbell project has a set of design principles that guide the development of the project. These principles are outlined in our design philosophy document.

The Tinkerbell project is governed by a group of Maintainers and Committers. How they are selected and governance details are outlined in our governance document.

The Tinkerbell project follows a release process outlined in our release process document.

To follow along and contribute to the Tinkerbell roadmap, see our roadmap repository.

For security issues, see our security document.