Bare Metal

Bare metal deployments install Flatcar directly onto physical hardware, with no hypervisor between the OS and the machine. You are responsible for boot media, network configuration, and disk layout. Flatcar supports several bootstrap paths:

  • Booting with ISO : boot from a live image for one-off provisioning or interactive installs.
  • Booting with PXE / iPXE : netboot fleets of machines from a network image server.
  • Installing to disk : run flatcar-install from an existing Linux system to write Flatcar onto a target drive.
  • Raspberry Pi 4 : a hobbyist favourite; ARM64 image and boot notes for the Pi.
Booting from an ISO

Booting via PXE

Booting via iPXE

Installing to disk

How to use the flatcar-install script to install Flatcar from a running system.

Raspberry Pi 4

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