18.1
Canonical MAAS is an open source platform for managing physical servers as cloud resources.
Free planOpen sourceWebAPILinux
Best Bare Metal Provisioning Software in 2026
Provisioning physical servers means handling tasks from machine discovery to operating system deployment and ongoing administration. Compared on bare-metal discovery, hardware inventory, lifecycle management, and OS image deployment, these options can be assessed against the stages your infrastructure team manages. API access, out-of-band management, and PXE bootstrapping add further technical criteria; free plan…
27.7
FOG Project is a free, open-source network computer cloning and management solution.
Free planOpen sourceWebAPILinux
36.9
Foreman is a free, open-source lifecycle management tool for physical and virtual servers.
Free planWebAPILinux
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Supermicro SuperDoctor 5
Supermicro SuperDoctor 5 is a free monitoring tool for Windows and Linux that tracks hardware health and system availability in data centers in real time.
Free planLinuxWindows6.8Free plan - 5
Clonezilla
Clonezilla is a partition and disk imaging program for system deployment, bare-metal backup, and recovery.
Free planLinuxmacOSSelf-hostedWindows6.7Free plan - 6
iVentoy
iVentoy is a PXE/HTTPBoot server for network-based operating system installation across multiple machines.
Free planLinuxSelf-hostedWindows6.7$49 one-time - 7
Digital Rebar Provision
Digital Rebar Provision is an enterprise bare metal automation platform for managing hardware from delivery through decommissioning across Day 0, Day…
WebAPILinuxmacOS6.6 - 8
Serva
Serva is a Windows application for network booting and installing operating systems through PXE.
Free planWindows6.6From $92 a year - 9
AuroraBoot
AuroraBoot is the official Kairos bootstrapper for building images, provisioning machines, and managing fleets.
Free planWebAPILinuxmacOS6.4Free plan - 10
openQRM Enterprise
openQRM Enterprise is a data centre management and cloud computing platform for managing IT infrastructure across bare-metal servers and virtual machines.
Free planWebAPILinuxSelf-hosted6.3Free plan - 11
Cobbler
Cobbler is free, self-hosted Linux server software for automating network installations and provisioning.
Free planAPILinuxSelf-hosted6.2Free plan - 12
HCL BigFix
HCL BigFix combines endpoint management, security, automation, and digital employee experience capabilities in one platform.
APILinuxmacOSSelf-hosted6.2 - 13
PxeLab
PxeLab is an open-source PXE network boot platform that bundles DHCP, TFTP, HTTP, DNS, and NFS in a single binary.
WebAPILinuxmacOS6.2 - 14
xCAT
xCAT is an open-source toolkit for deploying, scaling, and managing bare metal servers and virtual machines.
Free planAPILinuxSelf-hosted6.2Free plan - 15
FAI (Fully Automatic Installation)
FAI (Fully Automatic Installation) automates unattended installation and configuration of Linux systems and software on computers and virtual machines.
Free planAPILinuxSelf-hosted6.1Free plan - 16
NOC-PS
WebAPISelf-hosted6.1From €1,000 a year - 17
Warewulf
Warewulf is free software for provisioning and managing stateless Linux clusters, especially high-performance computing systems.
Free planAPILinuxSelf-hosted6.0Free plan - 18
DRBL
DRBL is free, open-source software for deploying GNU/Linux from one server to many client machines.
Free planLinuxSelf-hosted5.9Free plan - 19
MetalSoft Bare Metal Orchestrator
MetalSoft Bare Metal Orchestrator provisions, re-provisions, and manages general-purpose and specialized servers across hardware generations and vendors.
WebAPILinuxSelf-hosted5.9 - 20
NVIDIA Base Command Manager
NVIDIA Base Command Manager manages Linux-based compute environments through web and Linux platforms.
Free planWebLinux5.8Free plan - 21
OpenStack Ironic
OpenStack Ironic manages physical machines from discovery and cataloging through provisioning, maintenance, and decommissioning.
Free planAPILinuxSelf-hosted5.8Free plan - 22
Tinkerbell
Tinkerbell is a free, open-source engine for provisioning and managing bare metal infrastructure.
APILinuxSelf-hosted5.8 - 23
Confluent
Confluent is software for deploying and operating groups of servers, from a few machines to clusters of many thousands on x86_64 and aarch64 hardware.
WebAPILinuxSelf-hosted5.7 - 24
Grendel
Grendel is a bare-metal provisioning system for Linux clusters used in high-performance computing.
WebAPILinuxSelf-hosted5.7 - 25
Metal³
Metal³ is an open-source project for managing bare-metal infrastructure with Kubernetes.
APILinuxSelf-hosted5.7