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.

Step 2: Select Location and Type

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

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

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

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

Step 5: Access Server

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