 Hello everyone. My name is Mohammad Adelghaffar. I'm software engineer at Ericsson Software Technology and I'm here with Adam Rosman. Hi my name is Adam Rosman. I'm also working with Ericsson Software Technologies and we are here today to talk about the progress of Metal Cubed. We are here to talk about Metal Metal in the Sand. We want to talk about the progress of Metal Cubed when it was in the sandbox phase. Metal Cubed is an open source tool to provision bare metal operators with Kubernetes and it also provides lifecycle management tools. We started with this project in 2019 and in 2020 September we joined CNCF Sandbox and now our next step for us is the incubation and we have already submitted the incubation proposal on December 20th 2023 and right now it's looking for the approval. During the sandbox phase we have been able to add a lot of new features in the Metal Cubed. We have added remediation and not just like features in the Metal Cubed and we have also streamlined our release processes for all our main components which includes bare metal operator, cluster APM, cluster APM Metal Cubed and Ironic and also and Ironic and in addition to that we have also been able to get four more adopters in the sandbox phase and now we have total eight adopters in the in our official list which includes Ericsson, Fujitsu and IKEA and there are some other old adopters but they are not in the official list but they are like the silence adopters kind of and we have we are also have like like a lot of new maintainers in our project in the sandbox phase and we are always looking for more maintainers and more you know more adopters. Yep that's mostly for my side. Next Adam will talk about the next steps for the Metal Cubed. Yep thank you Adil. So in order to reach that level of development in the project we needed a strong community so many people around the Metal Cubed project work to maintain and build a good community that can work together. We have a lot of community resources we have a website, a book, tutorials in the book, we gained a lot of contributors just in the sandbox project. We have now a dedicated security lead who always answers the security disclosures and always available for for discussing security questions. We have a dedicated release team we will now open up our release process for for the for anyone. We will be available on Zoom when we do a release so anyone can just join and and see how the release goes. We have a select channel which is part of the Kubernetes select. We have a mailing list for general development purposes and we have a security mailing list for for disclosures. We have weekly community meetings on Zoom. We are now nearing 200 community meetings so every week anyone can join and can bring up new projects can do presentations, discuss and any any topic. We started to do yearly bigger meetups these are multi-day long or multi-hour long meetups where we plan ahead for one year and discuss the key points for the project. We have a YouTube channel you can find the meetups and the community meetings on a YouTube channel. You can check out the maturity level of the project for example on claw monitor or on dev stack and we have a quite robust community CI with both virtualized tests and real test running on real hardware. For the future without going into details what we want to achieve in this year we want to of course as any project improve our tests and reduce our technical depth but there have been during our yearly team meetup a lot of focus on a more flexible network configuration process as MetalCube can manage the network configuration for the bare metal nodes also we heard a lot of people having pain pains with Ironic and how to manage Ironic it wasn't really developed for Kubernetes rather it was developed for OpenStack so there is now an initiative and already a proof of concept of introducing an Ironic operator that will take care of a lot of Ironic configuration issues. We have a so-called pre-provisioning state when the bare metal gets provisioned and that had a bit weaker network configuration supports than the provisioned nodes so we are working on that and then we hope we can enter the incubation fees this year but you never know the application is already submitted we are waiting for the feedback we want to extend our our book to make the project more accessible and we are always welcoming blog posts and and auditions to our to our book and then we started to look into topics that are not necessarily part of the core bare metal lifecycle management but more like edge cases like managing of non-bootable media for the physical machines and this project was this talk aims to just let you know that metal cube exists and you can if you have a bare metal use case that you would like to discuss with us or you would like to know how to use metal cube to solve your problems you can we will have a country fest on Wednesday you can join and if you are a newcomer you can learn about the basics and if you are an advanced user you can contribute and also the newcomers can start contributing and then we will have a kick kiosk on Thursday in the am shift at pp16-a location so feel free to come and visit thank you for your attention