Getting Started
CobaltCore can be deployed in different configurations depending on your goals.
Deployment tracks
Minimal environment
Start here if you want to explore CobaltCore, develop against it, or understand how the pieces fit together with the smallest possible footprint.
→ Deploy a minimal environment
What you get: a single-node control plane, one hypervisor node, block storage, and the OpenStack APIs. No HA, no stretched storage, no full observability stack.
Prerequisites: basic Kubernetes knowledge, access to at least two bare metal or virtual machines.
Full production deployment
Start here if you are deploying CobaltCore to run real workloads at scale.
→ Deploy a full production environment
What you get: HA control plane, multiple hypervisor nodes, Ceph stretched cluster with Arbiter, full observability stack (Prysm, Prometheus, Perses), and the management frontend (Aurora, Greenhouse).
Prerequisites: familiarity with Kubernetes operators and Helm, access to bare metal infrastructure managed by IronCore.