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Provision Servers

Follow these steps to provision bare metal servers in Equinix Metal.

Step 1: Login into Equinix Metal

Login into your Equinix Metal account.

Login into Equinix Metal

Step 2: Select Location and Type

  • Select Location where you need the Server
  • Select server type from the list

Deploy Server

Step 3: Select OS

Select the Operating System for the master and worker nodes in your Kubernetes cluster

  • Select Ubuntu or CentOS
  • Select supported version of OS

Select OS

Step 4: Select Number of Servers

  • Select the number of servers for the master and worker nodes in your Kubernetes cluster
  • Provide the hostnames for the servers

Select OS

It will take ~5 minutes for the servers to be ready and usable. You can view and monitor status on the "server" listing page

Server Ready

Step 5: Access Server

Administrators can access the newly provisioned servers using SSH by requesting temporary SSH keys.

SSH to Server