Metal3.io becomes a CNCF incubating project

What is Metal3. io? Key Milestones and Ecosystem Growth Integrations Across the Cloud Native Landscape Technical Components Community Highlights Maintainer Perspective From the TOC Looking Ahead Posted on August 27, 2025 by Metal3. io Project Maintainers CNCF projects highlighted in this post The CNCF Technical Oversight Committee (TOC) has voted to accept Metal3. io as a CNCF incubating project. Metal3. io joins a growing ecosystem of technologies tackling real-world challenges at the edge of cloud native infrastructure. The Metal3. io project (pronounced: “Metal Kubed”) provides components for bare metal host management with Kubernetes. You can enroll your bare metal machines, provision operating system images, and then, if you like, deploy Kubernetes clusters to them. From there, operating and upgrading your Kubernetes clusters can be handled by Metal3. io. Moreover, Metal3.