AuroraBoot vs Digital Rebar Provision
AuroraBoot
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| Figure | AuroraBoot | Digital Rebar Provision |
|---|---|---|
| Price from | Free | — |
| Free plan | Yes | — |
| Free trial | — | Yes |
| Open source | — | — |
| Web | Yes | Yes |
| Windows | Yes | — |
| macOS | Yes | Yes |
| Linux | Yes | Yes |
| API | Yes | Yes |
| Self-hosted | Yes | Yes |
| Plans published | 1 | 2 |
| Spec score · Bare Metal Provisioning Software | 8.3 (#6) | 8.7 (#4) |
| API | A REST API and Go client mirror the UI, with Swagger UI available at /api/docs. | The API-first system exposes workflows, machine states, parameters, and logs, with websocket events, PATCH support, and a Swagger definition. |
| Integrations | AuroraBoot documents Redfish BMC deployment, Canonical MaaS image generation, Docker or OCI images and Pixiecore netboot serving. | The datasheet lists Terraform, Ansible AWX, VMware, Nutanix, Proxmox, Kubernetes, OpenShift, Git, GitLab, GitHub, ServiceNow, Remedy, Nagios, Prometheus, Chef and external vaults. |
| Support | Bug reports and feature requests are directed to the kairos-io/kairos issue tracker, and Kairos lists enterprise support contacts on its website. | Every paid edition includes 8×5 support, while 24×7 premium support with architecture reviews is an upgrade. |
Plans
Digital Rebar Provision
- Digital Rebar EnterprisePrice not published
- Digital Rebar PlatformPrice not published
In their own words
AuroraBoot
AuroraBoot is Kairos’s bootstrapper for creating machine images, provisioning systems, and managing fleets. It builds ISO, UKI, raw disk, and system-extension images from Kairos flavors or container images, then supports provisioning by PXE/netboot, Redfish, or USB. Its fleet server pairs a browser dashboard for artifact building, deployment, and node management with a REST API and Go client; API documentation is available through Swagger UI at /api/docs. Registered nodes can receive upgrades, reboots, resets, cloud-config, and shell commands, with command output captured. The guided Artifact Builder offers templates for Ubuntu, Fedora, Debian, openSUSE, Alpine, Rocky, and Hadron. A SecureBoot key store handles PK, KEK, db, and TPM PCR policy keys, with signed export and import. Documented architectures are amd64, arm64, and riscv64. The self-hosted software is free under Apache License 2.0; its fleet server uses SQLite by default and can use PostgreSQL. Docker or a container engine is required. One security consideration: netboot serves files over unauthenticated plain HTTP to reachable clients.
Digital Rebar Provision
Digital Rebar Provision has no write-up on Specifiction yet; its figures are above.