Matchbox

Spec sheet

Purpose

Matchbox matches bare-metal machines to profiles for PXE booting and provisioning clusters.Read 7 Oct 2026 · matchbox.psdn.io

Audience

The maker describes Matchbox as serving client machines in a lab or datacenter.Read 7 Oct 2026 · github.com

Deployment

The service can run as a Linux binary, a container image, or on a Kubernetes cluster.Read 7 Oct 2026 · github.com

Security

The gRPC API uses TLS credentials for client authentication and a secure communication channel.Read 7 Oct 2026 · github.com

APIs

Matchbox provides HTTP endpoints and an authenticated gRPC API for clients to create or update resources.Read 7 Oct 2026 · github.com

Boot support

Matchbox can chainload via iPXE and render network boot configuration for iPXE and GRUB2 clients.Read 7 Oct 2026 · github.com

Hardware matching

Machines can be matched to profiles by hardware labels such as MAC address or UUID.Read 7 Oct 2026 · matchbox.psdn.io

Integration

The maker documents Terraform usage and provides a Terraform provider plugin for Matchbox.Read 7 Oct 2026 · matchbox.psdn.io

Operational limit

The example Kubernetes manifests use ephemeral emptyDir storage, and the guide recommends replacing it with persistent storage when available.Read 7 Oct 2026 · github.com

Provisioning

It provisions Fedora CoreOS or Flatcar Linux using Ignition configuration.Read 7 Oct 2026 · matchbox.psdn.io

Related tools

Poseidon provides dnsmasq as a container for DHCP, TFTP, and DNS services.Read 7 Oct 2026 · github.com

Release verification

The installation guide instructs users to verify release signatures with the maker's GPG signing key.Read 7 Oct 2026 · github.com

Plans and prices

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Where Specifiction places it

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