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IronCore

The Kubernetes driven IaaS and Bare Metal Automation

Welcome to the IronCore Project

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👋 Welcome to the official GitHub presence of IronCore. We are part of ApeiroRA which is an Important Project of Common European Interest - Next Generation Cloud Infrastructures and Services (IPCEI-CIS). Project IronCore is an open source system for managing compute and storage workloads across multiple providers.

🌐 ApeiroRA?

ApeiroRA is a reference blueprint for an open, flexible, secure, and compliant next-generation cloud-edge continuum and therefore a key contribution to IPCEI-CIS. At a high level, the projects of ApeiroRA allow users to provider-agnostically fetch, request and consume services, and for service providers to describe, offer and provision their services.

Learn more about ApeiroRA by checking out the official website at https://apeirora.eu/.

🤝 IronCore

The IronCore project is an open-source platform dedicated to empowering users with robust, declarative infrastructure management and bare metal automation, seamlessly integrating these capabilities into the cloud-native ecosystem via a Kubernetes-native APIs.

📌 IronCore and NeoNephos

IronCore has been donated to the NeoNephos Foundation, a Linux Foundation initiative dedicated to advancing open-source projects that align with the strategic objectives of IPCEI-CIS under neutral governance. Learn more about NeoNephos and our role within it here.

🐧 Features

  • Single Interface: Single Interface for managing resources orchestrated across regions, data centers, and availability zones.
  • Vendor-Neutral Storage Backend: Ceph is modularly provided as a cloud-natively automated, vendor-neutral storage backend for block, shared, and object storage.
  • CLOS Network Fabric: Network fabric based on CLOS Topology is included.

👥 Get Involved

Thank you for considering to contribute to our project. To become an excellent contributor, check out our contribution guidelines and our open issues.

💙 Code of Conduct

To facilitate a nice environment for all, check out our Code of Conduct.

📚 Learn More

To learn more about IronCore, check out the official documentation!

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  1. ironcore ironcore Public

    Cloud Native Infrastructure as a Service

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  2. ironcore-net ironcore-net Public

    Provider specific implementation of ironcore network types

    Go 5 3

  3. ceph-provider ceph-provider Public

    Ceph provider implementation of the IronCore storage interface

    Go 2 6

  4. libvirt-provider libvirt-provider Public

    Libvirt provider implementation of the IronCore compute interface

    Go 7 5

  5. dpservice dpservice Public

    DPDK based fast Dataplane / L3 router / SDN enabler, installable on compute nodes / SmartNICs

    C 9 3

  6. metal-operator metal-operator Public

    Kubernetes operator for automating bare metal server discovery and provisioning

    Go 24 6

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  • metal-operator Public

    Kubernetes operator for automating bare metal server discovery and provisioning

    ironcore-dev/metal-operator’s past year of commit activity
    Go 24 Apache-2.0 6 48 (1 issue needs help) 17 Updated Oct 21, 2025
  • FeOS Public

    A Rust-based init system for Linux, specifically tailored for secure and efficient management of containers, VMs, and MicroVMs in clustered server and multi-tenant environments.

    ironcore-dev/FeOS’s past year of commit activity
    Rust 10 Apache-2.0 1 13 5 Updated Oct 21, 2025
  • metalnet Public

    Kubernetes controller managing dpservice networking resources

    ironcore-dev/metalnet’s past year of commit activity
    Go 0 Apache-2.0 2 7 2 Updated Oct 21, 2025
  • dpservice Public

    DPDK based fast Dataplane / L3 router / SDN enabler, installable on compute nodes / SmartNICs

    ironcore-dev/dpservice’s past year of commit activity
    C 9 Apache-2.0 3 22 2 Updated Oct 21, 2025
  • libvirt-provider Public

    Libvirt provider implementation of the IronCore compute interface

    ironcore-dev/libvirt-provider’s past year of commit activity
    Go 7 Apache-2.0 5 8 0 Updated Oct 21, 2025
  • machine-controller-manager-provider-ironcore Public

    Gardener machine controller manager provider for IronCore

    ironcore-dev/machine-controller-manager-provider-ironcore’s past year of commit activity
    Go 3 Apache-2.0 3 0 3 Updated Oct 20, 2025
  • boot-operator Public

    Kubernetes-based controller to manage Boot Infrastructure e.g. HTTPBoot, IPXEBoot

    ironcore-dev/boot-operator’s past year of commit activity
    Go 6 Apache-2.0 4 14 (2 issues need help) 2 Updated Oct 20, 2025
  • cloud-provider-ironcore Public

    Kubernetes Cloud Controller Provider implementation for IronCore

    ironcore-dev/cloud-provider-ironcore’s past year of commit activity
    Go 2 Apache-2.0 4 0 2 Updated Oct 20, 2025
  • cluster-api-provider-ironcore-metal Public

    Cluster API implementation for IronCore bare metal

    ironcore-dev/cluster-api-provider-ironcore-metal’s past year of commit activity
    Go 4 Apache-2.0 2 3 2 Updated Oct 20, 2025
  • ironcore-dev.github.io Public

    IronCore Project Landing Page and Documentation

    ironcore-dev/ironcore-dev.github.io’s past year of commit activity
    Makefile 1 Apache-2.0 3 5 2 Updated Oct 20, 2025