Welcome to the official GitHub presence of CobaltCore. We are part of ApeiroRA which is an Important Project of Common European Interest - Next Generation Cloud Infrastructures and Services (IPCEI-CIS). CobaltCore is a cloud-native IaaS platform combining Kubernetes-native orchestration with OpenStack-influenced services to deliver a modern cloud distribution for cloud-native and traditional workloads alike.

CobaltCore is a cloud-native IaaS platform combining Kubernetes-native orchestration with OpenStack-influenced services to deliver a modern cloud distribution for cloud-native and traditional workloads alike. It ensures backward compatibility for stateful VMs and traditional network configurations. Compute, storage, and networking lifecycles are fully managed through Kubernetes APIs and wired together by feature-rich services covering every operational concern of a modern data center, enabling production-grade deployments at any scale within weeks, from bare metal up.

• Automated Lifecycle: Compute, storage, networking, and AI hardware lifecycles are fully automated through IronCore Bare Metal Management and Kubernetes-native operators - from bare metal provisioning to day-2 operations.
• Gardener Extensions: Gardener and GardenLinux extensions provide coordinated control-plane maintenance for the KVM hypervisor and storage fleet, ensuring reliable and non-disruptive updates at any scale.
• Greenhouse Integration: Operational concerns are seamlessly integrated with the Greenhouse Operations Platform and Heureka Security Posture Management, giving operators a unified view across the entire data center.

CobaltCore has been donated to the NeoNephos Foundation, a Linux Foundation initiative dedicated to advancing open-source projects that align with the strategic objectives of IPCEI-CIS under neutral governance. Learn more about NeoNephos and our role within it here.

Contributions are welcome. Check out our contribution guidelines and open issues to get started.

This project follows our Code of Conduct.

ApeiroRA is a reference blueprint for an open, flexible, secure, and compliant next-generation cloud-edge continuum and therefore a key contribution to IPCEI-CIS. At a high level, the projects of ApeiroRA allow users to provider-agnostically fetch, request and consume services, and for service providers to describe, offer and provision their services.