Bare Metal Management
Provisioning and managing bare metal servers
This guide explains how to provision and manage bare metal servers in the Console UI. Bare metal gives you direct, exclusive access to a physical server with no hypervisor overhead.
Before you can provision a bare metal server, an operator must first enroll the physical node and complete hardware inspection. See Bare-Metal Node Enrollment in the operator guide. A node must be in available state before it can be provisioned.
Provisioning a Bare Metal Server
Once a node is in available state, provision it by deploying an OS image. Provisioning typically takes 15–30 minutes.
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Click create server in the Servers sidebar.
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Select Bare Metal as the server type.
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Fill in the form:
Field Description Server Name A name for the provisioned server instance. Flavor The hardware profile that matches the physical node's capabilities. Image The OS image to deploy. User Script An optional shell script that runs after first boot (cloud-init). -
Click Provision Server.
The server will appear in the Servers panel while provisioning.
Your registered SSH keys are automatically injected into the provisioned OS, so you can connect via SSH as soon as the server is active.
Connecting to a Bare Metal Server
Once the server status is ACTIVE in the Servers panel, connect using the IP address shown in the table:
ssh ubuntu@<server-ip-address>
The username may vary depending on the OS image used.
Bare metal servers are only accessible from the tenant VPN network. See VPN Configuration for setup instructions.
Deleting a Bare Metal Server
Deleting deprovisions the server and returns the physical node to the pool.
- Locate the server in the Servers panel.
- Click the delete icon on the row.
- Confirm the deletion.
To remove the physical node enrollment entirely, delete it from the Baremetal panel after the server is deprovisioned.
A node cannot be deleted while a server is deployed on it. Delete the server first, then delete the node.