Quick-Starts

The following quick-start guides will walk you through standing up the Tinkerbell stack. There are a few options for this. Pick the one that works best for you.

Options

• Vagrant and VirtualBox
• Vagrant and Libvirt
• Docker Compose
• Terraform and Equinix Metal
• Kubernetes
• Multipass

Next Steps

Now that you have a Tinkerbell stack up and running, you can start provisioning machines. Tinkerbell.org has a list of guides for provisioning machines. You can also create your own. The following docs will help you get started.

1. Create Hardware Data
2. Create a Template
3. Create a Workflow

In the Sandbox

1. Create your own templates

   docker exec -i compose_tink-cli_1 tink template create < ./custom-template.yaml
   

2. Upload any container images you want to use in the templates to the internal registry

   docker run -it --rm quay.io/containers/skopeo copy --all --dest-tls-verify=false --dest-creds="admin":"Admin1234" docker://hello-world docker://192.168.50.4/hello-world
   

3. Create a workflow

   docker exec -i compose_tink-cli_1 tink workflow create -t <TEMPLATE ID> -r '{"device_1":"08:00:27:00:00:01"}')
   

4. Restart the machine to provision (if using the vagrant sandbox test machine this is done by running vagrant destroy -f machine1 && vagrant up machine1