Bare-metal provisioning

How it works

Point a physical server at the network and boot it: the platform's PXE service takes over, loads the installer for the OS template you chose, and reports progress back to the console. No USB sticks, no KVM cart.

Unattended and interactive modes

• Unattended — the OS installs itself from an autoinstall profile: disk layout, users, SSH keys, and packages are all pre-answered. Ideal for fleets.
• Interactive — the standard installer UI over the network, for one-off or unusual builds.

Power control

Servers with a BMC (iLO, iDRAC, generic IPMI) can be powered on, off, and rebooted from the console, so the whole install cycle can run without touching the machine.

Virtual machines too

The same install pipeline works for VMs, which is handy for testing an autoinstall profile before pointing it at real hardware.