Bare-Metal Chronicles: Intertwinement of Tinkerbell, Cluster API and GitOps

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Cluster API, Tinkerbell and the kpt provider are shown wired together so YAML CRDs declare clusters and Tinkerbell templates/ workflows provision bare‑metal hardware; Argo CD watches Helm values to change replicas. Demo runs on kind + AWS (uses kubeadm bootstrap and CAPA controllers) and increases worker replicas from 1 to 5 via a git commit; new machines appear within about a minute so the automation actually works. Cluster API provider for Tinkerbell (kpt) Argo CD automated reconciliation

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1. 0:00Introduction
2. 1:47Key tools overview
3. 2:49Kubernetes adoption
4. 6:00Cluster API benefits
5. 8:04Cluster API architecture
6. 14:42Bare metal provisioning
7. 17:29Cluster API + Tinkerbell
8. 20:15GitOps automation
9. 22:00Demo setup
10. 31:27Conclusion & Q&A

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