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Crowbar

Crowbar is an Open Source platform for server provisioning and deployment from bare metal. Created by Rob Hirschfeld and Team

Free Open Source
Linux

Crowbar is an Open Source platform for server provisioning and deployment from bare metal. It provides server discovery, firmware upgrades, and operating system installation using PXE Boot. It deploys applications on top of functioning operating systems using whatever config management system you already know and love.

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Features

Configuration Configuration Management Server Management Add a feature

Categories

OS & Utilities Network & Admin

Tags

automation data-center-automation deployment devops it-infrastructure provisioning system-administration

Crowbar was added by owen in Mar 2013 and the latest update was made in May 2017. The list of alternatives was updated Jul 2020. It's possible to update the information on Crowbar or report it as discontinued, duplicated or spam.

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