VMetal – run a GPU cloud on bare metal without OpenStack

In plain words

VMetal is a bare metal management platform designed for GPU clusters that handles machine discovery, PXE booting, and lifecycle management without OpenStack. Built around Kubernetes-native workflows, it lets teams programmatically manage physical machines as infrastructure resources. VMetal targets organizations running GPU clusters who want modern provisioning tools instead of legacy systems or custom-built solutions.

written from the facts on this page · September 2026

From the sources

Automate bare metal and VM provisioning for GPU and AI clouds. One stable API for Kubernetes and Slurm machines, on Metal3, NVIDIA NICo, KubeVirt, and more.

Turn your racks into EC2. One stable API for bare metal and VMs, on any provisioning stack. vMetal provisions the bare metal and VMs. vCluster turns them into products you ship. Run several systems at once or swap one out. Whatever the future brings, nothing above has to change. A stable interface upward, no matter what you change underneath. Bring your compute, networking, and storage layers together with ease. We stand behind every open-source technology in the stack, in production. Deep, battle-tested experience across every possible integration. Metal3, KubeVirt, NVIDIA NICo, VMware, OpenStack, and more, under onefrom vmetal.ai

In the maker’s words, at launch

Hi everyone — looking for feedback on a new infrastructure project we launched called vMetal. It's a bare metal management platform for GPU clusters that handles machine discovery, PXE booting, and lifecycle management, without the OpenStack complexity. Built around Kubernetes-native workflows so you can hand it off…

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