Tinkerbell, a deep dive into the magic of cloud native bare metal

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Tinkerbell is a microservice workflow engine that provisions bare metal by pulling containerized actions into an in‑memory OS (hook/linuxkit) and executing them via a tink worker talking to tink server. Uses: packer, docker, OCI registries, and the crocodile OS builder; actions like image-to-disk, oci-to-disk and archive-to-disk stream images and use kexec to boot. Zero‑write skipping cuts writes drastically (example: 22GB Windows becomes ~9GB written), demos show 51s and 19s full reprovisions and a ~1 minute ESXi boot. Cluster‑API provider work is underway.

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1. 0:00Introduction
2. 1:45What is Tinkerbell
3. 4:10What does Tinkerbell do
4. 8:35Tinkerbell tooling
5. 16:27Deployment technologies
6. 21:06Useless space
7. 24:00KExec
8. 24:51Equinix Metal
9. 26:36UEFI Boot
10. 27:08VDI Boot
11. 27:32Examples
12. 27:47Outro