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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

  • Kubernetes-Native Bare Metal Lifecycle
    Discover, provision, and manage physical servers using Kubernetes CRDs — including hardware inventory and Day-2 operations — fully declarative and API-driven.

  • Unified IaaS Across Cloud, Data Center, and Edge
    A consistent, declarative IaaS layer for compute, networking, and storage that spans regions, data centers, and edge environments.

  • Modular, Pluggable Architecture
    Loosely coupled components for compute, storage, and networking that can be swapped or extended to fit different infrastructures and providers.

  • Deep Kubernetes Ecosystem Integration
    Designed to work seamlessly with Cluster API, CSI/CCM, and Gardener, fitting naturally into existing Kubernetes control planes.

  • Automatic Discovery & GitOps-Friendly Operations
    Automatic hardware discovery combined with declarative lifecycle management enables reproducible, GitOps-style infrastructure workflows.

👥 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

    Go 66 12

  2. ironcore-net ironcore-net Public

    Provider specific implementation of ironcore network types

    Go 7 4

  3. ceph-provider ceph-provider Public

    Ceph provider implementation of the IronCore storage interface

    Go 4 6

  4. libvirt-provider libvirt-provider Public

    Libvirt provider implementation of the IronCore compute interface

    Go 11 5

  5. dpservice dpservice Public

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

    C 13 6

  6. metal-operator metal-operator Public

    Kubernetes operator for automating bare metal server discovery and provisioning

    Go 26 13

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  • 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 11 4 Updated Apr 7, 2026
  • network-operator Public

    Kubernetes operator for automating network device provisioning

    ironcore-dev/network-operator’s past year of commit activity
    Go 8 Apache-2.0 2 12 13 Updated Apr 7, 2026
  • metal-operator Public

    Kubernetes operator for automating bare metal server discovery and provisioning

    ironcore-dev/metal-operator’s past year of commit activity
    Go 26 Apache-2.0 13 54 (3 issues need help) 29 Updated Apr 7, 2026
  • metalbond Public

    Route reflector for IronCore Infrastructure Overlay Network

    ironcore-dev/metalbond’s past year of commit activity
    Go 2 Apache-2.0 3 9 8 Updated Apr 7, 2026
  • ironcore-csi-driver Public

    Kubernetes Container Storage Interface (CSI) Driver for IronCore

    ironcore-dev/ironcore-csi-driver’s past year of commit activity
    Go 3 Apache-2.0 3 0 0 Updated Apr 7, 2026
  • ironcore-in-a-box Public

    IronCore IaaS in a Box

    ironcore-dev/ironcore-in-a-box’s past year of commit activity
    Shell 15 Apache-2.0 6 2 3 Updated Apr 7, 2026
  • ironcore-image Public

    IronCore OCI Image Specification, Library and Tooling

    ironcore-dev/ironcore-image’s past year of commit activity
    Go 2 Apache-2.0 4 2 1 Updated Apr 7, 2026
  • kubectl-ironcore Public

    kubectl plugin for ironcore

    ironcore-dev/kubectl-ironcore’s past year of commit activity
    Go 0 Apache-2.0 1 0 0 Updated Apr 7, 2026
  • vgopath Public

    Virtual GOPATH for module enabled projects

    ironcore-dev/vgopath’s past year of commit activity
    Go 2 Apache-2.0 5 2 0 Updated Apr 7, 2026
  • controller-utils Public

    Utility library for writing Kubernetes controllers

    ironcore-dev/controller-utils’s past year of commit activity
    Go 4 Apache-2.0 2 0 0 Updated Apr 7, 2026

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