Metal3

Metal3 (Metal Kubed) is a CNCF incubating project that provides bare metal host provisioning for Kubernetes. It leverages Ironic for hardware management and integrates with the Cluster API to enable Kubernetes-native lifecycle management of bare metal infrastructure. Metal3 automates server discovery, inspection, provisioning, and deprovisioning using Kubernetes custom resources.

Metal3 publishes 1 API on the APIs.io network. Tagged areas include Bare Metal, Cloud-Native, Incubating, Infrastructure, and Kubernetes.

Metal3’s developer surface includes documentation, engineering blog, and 3 more developer resources.

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13.9/100 emerging ▬ flat Agent 3/100 human only Full breakdown ↓
scored 2026-09-14 · rubric v0.22.0

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Bare Metal Cloud-Native Incubating Infrastructure Kubernetes Provisioning

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scored 2026-09-14 · rubric v0.22.0

Composite quality — 13.9/100 · emerging

Contract Quality 0.0 / 25

Developer Ergonomics 2.4 / 20

Access Clarity 3.2 / 20

Operational Transparency 1.7 / 13

Contract Governance 0.0 / 12

Discoverability 6.7 / 10

Agent readiness — 3/100 · human only

Machine-Readable Contract 0 / 18

Agentic Access Contract 0 / 10

Documented Reversibility 0 / 6

MCP Server 0 / 12

Machine-Readable Auth 0 / 10

Idempotency 0 / 9

Stable Error Semantics 0 / 8

Request/Response Examples 0 / 7

Rate-Limit Signaling 7 / 7

Typed Event Surface 0 / 6

Agent Skills 0 / 5

Well-Known Catalog 0 / 4

Consent & Bot Identity 0 / 3

A2A Agent Card 0 / 8

Dry-Run / Simulate Mode 0 / 4

Delegated User Identity 0 / 6

Protected Resource Metadata 0 / 5

Registration Without a Human 0 / 6

Agentic Commerce Well-Known Document 0 / 5

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APIs 1

Individual APIs this provider publishes, each with its own machine-readable definition.

Metal3 BareMetalHost API

Metal3 extends Kubernetes with the BareMetalHost custom resource for managing physical servers. The API supports hardware inventory discovery, firmware configuration, BIOS setti...

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Metal3 Io Plans Pricing

3 plans

PLANS

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Metal3 Io Rate Limits

5 limits

RATE LIMITS

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Metal3 Io Finops

FINOPS

Security Posture 1

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Metal3 Io Domain Security

TLSv1.3

SECURITY

Resources

Documentation 1

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Documentation

Documentation

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GitHubOrg

GitHubOrg

Access & Security 1

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DomainSecurity

DomainSecurity

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Website

Website

Blog

Blog

Source (apis.yml)

aid: metal3-io
name: Metal3
description: Metal3 (Metal Kubed) is a CNCF incubating project that provides bare metal host provisioning for Kubernetes.
  It leverages Ironic for hardware management and integrates with the Cluster API to enable Kubernetes-native lifecycle management
  of bare metal infrastructure. Metal3 automates server discovery, inspection, provisioning, and deprovisioning using Kubernetes
  custom resources.
url: https://metal3.io
deliveryModel:
  model: unknown
  open_source: false
  commercial: false
  callable_host: false
  label: Delivery model not determined — needs a product licence on record
  confidence: low
  source:
  - none
  generated: '2026-08-28'
  method: derived
accessModel:
  pricing: freemium
  onboarding: unknown
  trial: false
  try_now: false
  public: false
  label: Freemium
  confidence: medium
  source:
  - plans
  generated: '2026-07-22'
  method: derived
image: https://kinlane-images.s3.amazonaws.com/shared/apis-json/icons/metal3-io.png
tags:
- Bare Metal
- Cloud-Native
- Incubating
- Infrastructure
- Kubernetes
- Provisioning
tags_raw:
- Bare Metal
- Cloud Native
- Incubating
- Infrastructure
- Kubernetes
- Provisioning
created: '2026-03-16'
modified: '2026-04-28'
specificationVersion: '0.23'
type: Index
apis:
- aid: metal3-io:metal3-api
  name: Metal3 BareMetalHost API
  description: Metal3 extends Kubernetes with the BareMetalHost custom resource for managing physical servers. The API supports
    hardware inventory discovery, firmware configuration, BIOS settings, RAID configuration, and OS provisioning. Combined
    with Cluster API, it enables declarative management of bare metal Kubernetes clusters.
  humanURL: https://metal3.io/documentation.html
  properties:
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://metal3.io/documentation.html
  tags:
  - Bare Metal
  - Hardware Management
  - Provisioning
common:
- type: Website
  url: https://metal3.io/
- type: DomainSecurity
  url: security/metal3-io-domain-security.yml
- type: Documentation
  name: Metal3 Documentation
  description: Official Metal3 documentation.
  url: https://metal3.io/documentation.html
- type: GitHubOrg
  name: Metal3 GitHub
  description: Source code repositories.
  url: https://github.com/metal3-io
- url: https://metal3.io/feed.xml
  type: Blog
maintainers:
- FN: Kin Lane
  email: kin@apievangelist.com

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