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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.

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