Added MetalSoft reference

[alexandrubordei]

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Project name

MetalSoft

Why do you feel this project should be added to awesome-baremetal?

It is a complete and mature solution, used in production for many years at Bigstep to manage a bare metal cloud.

What's your connection to the project?

I'm part of the original team that developed it. Currently VP of Product.

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Submission type

Closed source bare metal provisioning solution, includes bare metal SDN, storage management, monitoring etc.

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Has the project had commits within the last 6 months?

The project is under heavy development with releases every 2-4 weeks.

[justinclift]

Not sure if closed source stuff is workable for this list. The intro docs don't seem to prohibit it though.

@alexellis ?

[alexellis]

You have a managed product or service where people can rent servers, similar to Packet or Cherry Servers right? Maybe that could be added?

[alexandrubordei]

@alexellis I've created a separate PR for that service - Bigstep - which is similar to Packet. MetalSoft is the software that enables private bare metal clouds for both core and edge deployments.

[alexandrubordei]

@alexellis If you feel you need more details about our service, we can give you access to Bigstep to play around a bit. This should also give you a feel of how MetalSoft looks like from a user's perspective. Another resource that could help is: https://docs.bigstep.com. It talks about how on-demand utilisation works, how to use the infrastructure editor, the CLI, the Terraform provider etc. to provision bare metal resources.

[alexellis]

Thank you. This PR is on my list to review 👍

[alexandrubordei]

@alexellis Any update on this?

[alexellis]

Hey, sorry for the late response. I got drowned in notifications.

For closed source, see the notes in the README.

Alex