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Dev tools · February 16, 2026

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Provisioner per-board sidecar for serial access, flashing, and bring-up

Hi HN, I’ve been building a small infrastructure tool called Provisioner: a per-board provisioning sidecar for SBC bring-up and lab automation. https://github.com/alessandrocarminati/provisioner The model is simple: one instance per board. It sits next to the hardware, owns the serial console, exposes access over SSH, and serves boot artifacts (kernel, initramfs, rootfs) via TFTP/HTTP. It’s designed for the phase where networking is unreliable, storage is half-flashed, and UART is the only thing still telling the truth. What it does - Serial console ownership + SSH…

Provisioner per-board sidecar for serial access, flashing, and bring-up launched on February 16, 2026 with 9 votes, #1,122 of 16,627 launches that month and more than 75% of that year's launches.

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Hi HN, I’ve been building a small infrastructure tool called Provisioner: a per-board provisioning sidecar for SBC bring-up and lab automation. https://github.com/alessandrocarminati/provisioner The model is simple: one instance per board. It sits next to the hardware, owns the serial console…

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