Getting Started

Before starting to buy any hardware, you should try out the metal-stack on your notebook and familiarize with the software.

For this, we made the mini-lab.

The mini-lab is a fully virtual setup of metal-stack and is supposed to be run locally on a single machine. For this reason, the setup was slightly simplified in comparison to full-blown setups on real hardware. However, the lab should help to understand all ideas behind the metal-stack.

Get your hands dirty and follow the guide on how to get on with the mini-lab.

Concepts

Browse our concepts chapter to get a complete view over the metal-stack architecture.

Plan Your Data Center

If you are already familiar with metal-stack, you can also explore the Planner, which helps you to dynamically create a bill of materials (BOM) for purchasing hardware for your data center.