## [Bare Metal Replication And Virtualization Environment (BRAVE)](https://docs.rafay.co/blog/2023/11/27/bare-metal-replication-and-virtualization-environment-brave/)

[BRAVE](https://github.com/RafaySystems/brave/) (Bare Metal Replication And Virtualization Environment) offers a **virtual**, **cost-efficient**, **convenient**, **automated** and **on-demand** tool for executing use cases requiring bare metal infrastructure.

Cost and complexity of bare metal deployments can be prohibitive for a number of non production use cases such as :

- Creating **on-demand labs** for conducting quick proof of concepts, demonstrations or experiments
- Creating **testbed environments** for development, debugging and automated testing
- Performing comprehensive architectural and security assessments through construction of proof of concept deployments.