displague / tink

A workflow engine for provisioning bare metal.

Tinkerbell

It is comprised of following five major components:

1. A DHCP server (boots)
2. A workflow engine (tink, this repository)
3. A metadata service (hegel)
4. An in-memory installation environment(osie)
5. A controller/handler of BMC interactions(pbnj)

The workflow engine is comprised of a server and a CLI, which communicates over gRPC. The CLI is used to create a workflow and its building blocks: templates and targeted hardware.

Workflow

A workflow is a framework responsible for handling flexible, bare metal provisioning, that is...

• standalone and does not need the Packet API to function
• contains Boots, Tink, Hegel, OSIE, PBnJ and workers
• can bootstrap any remote worker using Boots + Hegel + OSIE + PBnJ
• can run any set of actions as Docker container runtimes
• receive, manipulate, and save runtime data

Website

For complete documentation, please visit the Tinkerbell project hosted at tinkerbell.org.