Question 1

What is Palette Bare Metal?

Accepted Answer

Palette Bare Metal is a capability of Spectro Cloud Palette that brings unified, full-stack Kubernetes lifecycle management to bare metal environments — automating everything from OS provisioning to app delivery.

Question 2

What problem does Palette Bare Metal solve?

Accepted Answer

It solves the complexity of managing separate OS and Kubernetes stacks on bare metal, reducing configuration drift, operational overhead, and risk — while increasing performance by eliminating hypervisors.

Question 3

How does Palette manage the OS layer?

Accepted Answer

Palette’s Real Metal architecture treats the OS as part of the declarative stack, enabling full-stack automation via Cluster Profiles and continuous reconciliation loops.

Question 4

What is Canonical MAAS and how does it work with Palette?

Accepted Answer

Canonical MAAS (Metal as a Service) manages the lifecycle of bare metal servers, including provisioning and rebuilding OS images. Palette integrates with MAAS via Cluster API to enable automated, repeatable bare metal K8s deployments.

Question 5

Does Palette support self-healing and rollback on bare metal?

Accepted Answer

Yes. Palette uses continuous reconciliation to detect drift and heal infrastructure automatically. It also supports immutability and rollback for secure upgrades on bare metal nodes.

Treat your bare metal K8s clusters... like any other cluster