--- title: Zero-Touch Bare Metal at Scale | daily.dev description: Railway's engineering team details how they automate bare metal server provisioning at scale. The process starts with using Redfish APIs to scrape hardware... canonical: https://daily.dev/posts/zero-touch-bare-metal-at-scale-h7pgdq30p twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:site: @dailydotdev og:type: website og:site_name: daily.dev og:title: Zero-Touch Bare Metal at Scale | daily.dev og:description: Railway's engineering team details how they automate bare metal server provisioning at scale. The process starts with using Redfish APIs to scrape hardware... og:url: https://daily.dev/posts/zero-touch-bare-metal-at-scale-h7pgdq30p og:image: https://api.daily.dev/og/posts/h7pgDq30P.png og:image:alt: Zero-Touch Bare Metal at Scale og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 630 og:locale: en --- > ## Documentation Index > Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://daily.dev/llms.txt > Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further. # Zero-Touch Bare Metal at Scale **[Railway Blog](https://daily.dev/sources/railway-blog)** · 10 min read · 0 upvotes · 0 comments ## Summary Railway's engineering team details how they automate bare metal server provisioning at scale. The process starts with using Redfish APIs to scrape hardware details from BMCs, building stable device identifiers for NICs and NVMe drives. A Temporal workflow orchestrates the entire import process, matching hardware against known configurations exposed to Ansible via a custom plugin. OS installation is automated via PXE/Pixiecore with preseed files tailored per machine, and Claude (via Supermicro's CaptureScreen Redfish API) monitors the install progress by interpreting server screen images. Networking uses BGP unnumbered with FRR to create a uniform, scalable CLOS topology that requires no per-rack reconfiguration as the cluster grows. ## Full article daily.dev links to this article rather than hosting it. 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