
Show HN: VMetal – run a GPU cloud on bare metal without OpenStackHi everyone — looking for feedback on a new infrastructure project we launched called vMetal. It's a bare metal management platform for GPU clusters that handles machine discovery, PXE booting, and lifecycle management, without the OpenStack complexity. Built around Kubernetes-native workflows so you can hand it off to teams or drop it into an existing platform. A lot of the infra platforms used for this today were designed 20 years ago (VMware, OpenStack, NVIDIA BCM, MAAS, etc.), while newer tools usually solve only a small piece of the stack. Neither were built with modern GPU cluster ops in mind. In practice most setups end up stitching things together or building custom provisioning pipelines.With vMetal we took a different approach: treat physical machines like programmable infrastructure resources. Compared to tools like MAAS or Tinkerbell, vMetal is designed around a few ideas: - Bare metal lifecycle automation: Automatically discover machines on the network, boot them, install
