Self-service bare metal infrastructure portal.
Smeltry transforms physical servers into usable infrastructure — Kubernetes clusters, bare OS servers, and more — through a Kubernetes-native, self-service portal.
The bare metal is the raw ore. Smeltry is the process that shapes it.
Users provision infrastructure through a web UI (Headlamp plugin) or CLI (smeltry).
Under the hood, Smeltry orchestrates a battle-tested open-source stack:
| Layer | Tool |
|---|---|
| Identity | Authentik (OIDC) |
| CMDB / IPAM | Netbox |
| OS Provisioning | Tinkerbell |
| Cluster Lifecycle | Cluster API + CAPT |
| Hosted Control Planes | Kamaji |
| Networking | Cilium (L2 announcements) |
| Addon Delivery | Sveltos |
| Repo | Description |
|---|---|
| smeltry-operator | Kubernetes operators: ClusterClaim, ServerClaim, NetboxTenant |
| smeltry | CLI — device flow OIDC, cluster and server management |
| smeltry-headlamp | Headlamp plugin — self-service web UI |
| helm-charts | Helm charts for deploying Smeltry itself |
| machinecfg | Netbox → Tinkerbell Hardware sync |
| .github | Org-wide governance, templates, and policies |
Early stage — not yet v1. The project is under active development. Star the repo or watch releases to follow progress.
Apache License 2.0 — see LICENSE.