Bare-metal Provisioning with Redfish
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Bare-metal Provisioning with Redfish
Automation cookbook for provisioning bare-metal servers via the DMTF Redfish API - the recipes platform engineers need to drive iDRAC, iLO, Supermicro, and XCC fleets from CI / AAP / Metal3. What's i
- Production-tested examples you can copy-paste today
- PDF format, optimized for screen and print
- Free updates whenever the source CLI changes
- Search-friendly, code-block heavy, no fluff
About this ebook
Automation cookbook for provisioning bare-metal servers via the DMTF Redfish API - the recipes platform engineers need to drive iDRAC, iLO, Supermicro, and XCC fleets from CI / AAP / Metal3.
What's inside:
• Redfish basics: schema, sessions, ETags, pretty curl invocations.
• BMC inventory queries (power, NICs, drives, firmware) as curl and Ansible.
• Authentication: local accounts, LDAP / AD, mTLS, lockout policies.
• Power and one-time boot (PXE / HDD / virtual media) recipes.
• Virtual-media attach for image-based installs - no PXE / DHCP required.
• BIOS get/set with ETag concurrency, apply-on-next-reset patterns.
• SimpleUpdate firmware flow for iDRAC, iLO, Supermicro.
• RAID / storage controller volume creation.
• PXE + iPXE + DHCP + TFTP baseline for fleet boot.
• Kickstart for RHEL / Rocky / AlmaLinux, autoinstall for Ubuntu 24.04.
• Image-based provisioning with osbuild and coreos-installer (Ignition).
• community.general.redfish_* Ansible modules + Redfish dynamic inventory.
• Metal3 + Ironic BareMetalHost on Kubernetes; Tinkerbell alternative.
• Secure Boot, TPM, LUKS2 + clevis + tang at scale.
• Day-2 telemetry: Redfish event subscriptions + rsyslog forwarding.
• 10 common errors with one-line fixes and reference YAML.
Tested against iDRAC 9 firmware 7.x, iLO 5 + 6, Supermicro X12 BMC, Lenovo XCC2, Redfish 1.20. Lifetime updates while the recipes are maintained, delivered via /library.
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