Kubernetes on OpenMetal Bare Metal Servers

Q: Can I run Kubernetes on OpenMetal bare metal servers?

OpenMetal bare metal servers support Kubernetes directly on hardware with no hypervisor layer, using Talos, Flatcar, K3s, or upstream Kubernetes distributions.

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Each server provides full root access and IPMI remote management, so you control the OS and container runtime from BIOS through production. The Large v4’s 32 cores / 64 threads and 512 GB DDR5 handle dense pod scheduling and large etcd datasets, while the 12.8 TB Micron 7500 MAX NVMe pool provides persistent local storage for StatefulSets and PVs without external SAN dependencies. Boot/data drive isolation keeps container runtime I/O (image pulls, overlay writes) on dedicated boot SSDs, leaving the NVMe data drives free for application workloads.

Multi-node clusters connect over 20 Gbps LACP-bonded private networking on customer-specific VLANs, with all private traffic included at no additional cost. Pod-to-pod east-west traffic stays on this private mesh. For distributed storage across nodes, Ceph with local NVMe or Longhorn provides replicated persistent volumes. OpenMetal also offers Hosted Private Cloud clusters running OpenStack, where Kubernetes can run on VMs with Ceph-backed persistent storage and OpenStack Neutron networking.