Impact
Apeiro Baremetal Operating System (BOS)
On the infrastructure layer, we offer stacks to manage cloud or edge infrastructure, a management dashboard, and flexibility with the supported hardware. Our offering is powered by a fully open-source, sovereign cloud blueprint, ensuring total control and transparency over your infrastructure.
Leveraging the Kubernetes Resource Model, our infrastructure layer provides declarative APIs for managing cloud infrastructure. Compared to traditional infrastructure solutions, this approach enables automated lifecycle management, significantly reducing the operational overhead associated with tasks such as scaling, patching, and upgrading infrastructure components. Building on a unified foundation for bare metal hardware management and storage we offer two Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS) implementations:
- IronCore, a radically simplified IaaS solution tailored for cloud-native workloads based on the Kubernetes resource model.
- CobaltCore, a robust, well-known IaaS based on OpenStack is designed to support existing, non-cloud-native workloads and traditional network configurations. CobaltCore offers fully automated, compliant zero-downtime maintenance operation focusing on system uptime and performance.
Bare-metal automation layer (Metal-API)
The Metal-API is a core component responsible for managing the entire lifecycle of server hardware within the Apeiro Infrastructure Stack. Again, by leveraging the Kubernetes Resource Model, it provides declarative APIs to automate every aspect of bare-metal server management, ensuring smooth, scalable, and reliable operations.
- Discovery: Newly introduced hardware in the data center is automatically detected, inventoried, and prepared for provisioning, ensuring seamless integration into the infrastructure.
- Provisioning: Automates the operating system installation and BIOS configurations, ensuring servers are quickly ready for use.
- Maintenance: Ongoing compliance and functionality of hardware devices require regular maintenance, including firmware updates. This process is fully automated, reducing the need for manual intervention.
- Decommissioning: Securely handles the retirement of servers, including data scrubbing to ensure safe reuse or disposal of the hardware.
