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kube-bmc

Your servers' BMCs as Kubernetes resources: zero-config in-band discovery, hardware health, Prometheus metrics, a slick dashboard and out-of-band power control. IPMI & Redfish.

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Details

External ID
1405585060
Source
GITHUB
Company
—
Product
kube-bmc
Website domain
github.com
Launched
Oct. 5, 2026
Cohort
—
Upvotes
49
Upvotes percentile
0.7250497017892644
Tags
baremetal, bmc, daemonset, golang, gpu, hardware-monitoring, ipmi, kubernetes, naive-ui, prometheus, redfish, vue3
Fetched at
Oct. 9, 2026, 5:02 p.m.
Updated at
Oct. 9, 2026, 5:02 p.m.

Enrichment

Niche
systems programming and linux developer tools
Vertical
Horizontal
Function
Dev tools
Audience
Developer
AI stance
Not AI
Project type
Hobby / open-source project
Normalized one-liner
kubernetes controller and dashboard for server bmc management
Manually corrected
False

Could you build this?

Partial Writing a Kubernetes CRD/operator dashboard is straightforward, but interfacing directly with bare-metal IPMI and Redfish across diverse hardware vendors requires domain-specific hardware protocols.

What it would actually take: Requires a Go-based Kubernetes operator (controller-runtime) integrating with IPMI 2.0 (ipmitool/go-ipmi) and DMTF Redfish APIs. The hard part is managing BMC network inconsistencies, vendor-specific raw IPMI quirks (Dell iDRAC vs HP iLO vs Supermicro), and out-of-band discovery at scale.

Competitors

Other products that read as similar to this one — 42 launches clear the similarity bar, closest 8 shown.

Attention rank: #12 of 43 (itself plus its competitors, highest first — normalized so YC and Product Hunt are compared fairly).

Launched 330 days after the earliest competitor.

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