A Kubernetes operator of virtual BMCs that provide Redfish and IPMI services for KubeVirt virtual machines.

Bare-metal provisioning tools like Metal3, Tinkerbell, and Seeder rely on IPMI and Redfish to manage server power state, boot devices, and firmware. KubeVirt virtual machines have none of these interfaces out of the box, making them invisible to existing infrastructure automation.

KubeVirtBMC fills that gap. It is a Kubernetes operator that creates a virtual BMC (Baseboard Management Controller) for each KubeVirt VM, exposing standard IPMI and Redfish endpoints that map directly to Kubernetes-native operations. The result: your VMs become first-class citizens in any bare-metal provisioning pipeline.

• KubeVirtBMC @ GitHub.

Related contents:

• Metal3 meets KubeVirtBMC: Provisioning KubeVirt VMs like bare metal @ Cloud Native.

An open-source tool for controlling IPMI-enabled systems.

ipmitool is a utility for managing and configuring devices that support the Intelligent Platform Management Interface. IPMI is an open standard for monitoring, logging, recovery, inventory, and control of hardware that is implemented independent of the main CPU, BIOS, and OS.