For over two decades, Warewulf has been the standard community cluster management solution powering HPC systems around the world. From simple “under the desk” clusters to the largest institutional HPC centers, they all rely on Warewulf for scalable provisioning and management of performance critical computing. Warewulf in its heart has always been first and foremost a stateless provisioning system (e.g. the operating system node image is not written to any persistent storage but rather compute nodes boot from the network directly) which is optimal for simple management of clusters. Warewulf is the basis of our community driven orchestration solution.
What do you get when you cross provisioning, containers, and cloud scale architectures? That is the inspiration for Warewulf v4, our latest community driven release. Simple, ultra scalable, lightweight, and easy to operate are the core design principles while making HPC and cloud native environments accessible to everyone big or small, experienced or novice.
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Warewulf Features
- Warewulf has been completely rewritten and redesigned, providing a large array of useful capabilities from HPC, Enterprise, Cloud, and Hyperscale
- Designed as a flexible framework for provisioning any types of hardware resources allowing easy stateless based OS provisioning
- Warewulf works natively with both VNFS style chroot templates as well as OCI based containers and registries
- Highly customizable templating system for node specific provision overlays
- Secure provisioning model capable of using in or out of band management networks, to secure the transfer of provisioned content
- Highly customizable, flexible, and scalable architecture and design
- Configuration is simple, powerful, and effective
- Easy to use and designed for both non-HPC professionals as well as empowers the expert systems administrator