Bootstrapping Bare Metal - Provisioning and Configuration Management Techniques

Explore bare metal provisioning and bootstrapping techniques in this 37-minute video from Rawkode Academy's Metal Monday series. Learn how to provision and bootstrap servers using Ansible, Pulumi with SaltStack, and Terraform with cloud-init on Equinix Metal's automated, interconnected bare metal-as-a-service platform. Follow along as the presenter demonstrates each method, confirms their functionality, and provides insights into the global capabilities of Equinix Metal for digital businesses seeking low-latency, high-performance infrastructure solutions.

- Introductions
- Provisioning and bootstrapping a server with Ansible
- Provisioning with Pulumi / bootstrapping with SaltStack
- Confirming Ansible worked
- Confirming SaltStack worked
- Provisioning with Terraform / bootstrapping with cloud-init
- Confirming more SaltStack
- Confirming cloud-init