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Confluent
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- Availability
- Collective mode can span one Confluent interface across multiple servers for high availability and large fleets.xcat2.github.io · read 30 Sep 2026
- Console management
- Console management provides multi-user access arbitration, timestamped logging, and VT-aware buffering for reconnects.xcat2.github.io · read 30 Sep 2026
- Deployment
- It can provision stateful and stateless images over PXE, HTTP(S) boot, or virtual media, with customization at each phase.xcat2.github.io · read 30 Sep 2026
- Discovery
- It can detect generic PXE systems or hardware managers and onboard devices by serial number, MAC address, switch port, or physical location.xcat2.github.io · read 30 Sep 2026
- Hardware management
- It supports power, boot-device selection, BIOS/UEFI/BMC settings, RAID storage controllers, health checks, telemetry, virtual media, and support data through IPMI, Redfish, and vendor plugins.xcat2.github.io · read 30 Sep 2026
- Installation requirement
- A default installation has firewall restrictions that must be adjusted for HTTPS and, depending on deployment method, additional network boot ports.xcat2.github.io · read 29 Sep 2026
- Intended users
- The documentation recommends installing Confluent directly for most users, especially those without an existing xCAT installation, while users relying on xCAT-exclusive features can run both together.xcat2.github.io · read 29 Sep 2026
- Interfaces
- Users can operate Confluent through Linux commands, the confetty command-line browser, a Python client library, or a REST API over HTTP.xcat2.github.io · read 30 Sep 2026
- License
- The project repository states that Confluent is available under the Apache 2.0 license.github.com · read 29 Sep 2026
- Network topology
- It centralizes access to MAC address tables and LLDP information across switches through one interface.xcat2.github.io · read 30 Sep 2026
- Notable limitation
- The documentation recommends installing Confluent directly for most users and describes using it alongside xCAT when xCAT-exclusive features are needed.xcat2.github.io · read 30 Sep 2026
- Operating systems
- The download instructions cover repositories for Red Hat Enterprise Linux, AlmaLinux, Rocky Linux, Ubuntu, and SUSE Linux Enterprise.xcat2.github.io · read 30 Sep 2026
- Purpose
- Confluent handles server-cluster bootstrap and day-to-day operations, including OS deployment, hardware control, console management, telemetry, and device onboarding.xcat2.github.io · read 30 Sep 2026
- Scale
- The documentation says Confluent supports clusters from a handful of nodes to many thousands, on x86_64 and aarch64 architectures.xcat2.github.io · read 29 Sep 2026
- Scale and architecture
- It supports clusters from a handful of nodes to many thousands and supports x86_64 (amd64) and aarch64 (arm64).xcat2.github.io · read 30 Sep 2026
- Security
- The documentation describes validated TLS for collective, deployment, and hardware-management traffic, TPM2 support for boot-volume protection and persistent node trust, SSH PKI, and Secure Boot support for media and HTTP boot.xcat2.github.io · read 30 Sep 2026
- Supported management server OS
- The installation documentation lists Enterprise Linux 8.6 or higher, SUSE Linux Enterprise 15 SP4 or higher, and Ubuntu 22.04 or 24.04 for installation.xcat2.github.io · read 29 Sep 2026
