Welcome to the IronCore Project

👋 Welcome to the official GitHub presence of IronCore. We are part of ApeiroRA which is an Important Project of Common European Interest - Next Generation Cloud Infrastructures and Services (IPCEI-CIS). Project IronCore is an open source system for managing compute and storage workloads across multiple providers.

🌐 ApeiroRA?

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.

Learn more about ApeiroRA by checking out the official website at https://apeirora.eu/.

🤝 IronCore

The IronCore project is an open-source platform dedicated to empowering users with robust, declarative infrastructure management and bare metal automation, seamlessly integrating these capabilities into the cloud-native ecosystem via a Kubernetes-native APIs.

📌 IronCore and NeoNephos

IronCore 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.

🐧 Features

• Kubernetes-Native Bare Metal Lifecycle
  Discover, provision, and manage physical servers using Kubernetes CRDs — including hardware inventory and Day-2 operations — fully declarative and API-driven.

• Unified IaaS Across Cloud, Data Center, and Edge
  A consistent, declarative IaaS layer for compute, networking, and storage that spans regions, data centers, and edge environments.

• Modular, Pluggable Architecture
  Loosely coupled components for compute, storage, and networking that can be swapped or extended to fit different infrastructures and providers.

• Deep Kubernetes Ecosystem Integration
  Designed to work seamlessly with Cluster API, CSI/CCM, and Gardener, fitting naturally into existing Kubernetes control planes.

• Automatic Discovery & GitOps-Friendly Operations
  Automatic hardware discovery combined with declarative lifecycle management enables reproducible, GitOps-style infrastructure workflows.

👥 Get Involved

Thank you for considering to contribute to our project. To become an excellent contributor, check out our contribution guidelines and our open issues.

💙 Code of Conduct

To facilitate a nice environment for all, check out our Code of Conduct.

📚 Learn More

To learn more about IronCore, check out the official documentation!