Introduction¶
What is Equinix Metal?¶
Equinix Metal is a bare metal as-a-service (BMaaS) offering which allows customers to rapidly and virtually provision physical servers at one of Equinix's many metros around the world.
About the workshop¶
The goals of this workshop are to have the user:
- Become familiar with the Equinix Metal console.
- Provision a bare metal server in a metro of their choice.
- Start and test out a sample application.
Workshop agenda¶
This workshop is split into three parts:
| Part | Title | Duration |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Setup an Equinix Metal user account | 10 minutes |
| 2 | Provision a bare metal server and deploy Wordpress with Kubernetes | 15 minutes |
| 3 | Investigate latency on Equinix Metal with SmokePing | 15 minutes |