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# LinuxKit with bare metal on Packet
Packet is a bare metal hosting provider.
[Packet](http://packet.net) is a bare metal hosting provider.
You will need to have created a Packet account and a project to
put this new machine into. You will also need to create an API key
You will need to [create a Packet account] and a project to
put this new machine into. You will also need to [create an API key]
with appropriate read/write permissions to allow the image to boot.
Linuxkit on Packet boots via iPXE. This requires that you have
an HTTP server on which you can store your images. At the moment
there is no equivalent to "linuxkit push" to upload these images,
so you will have to host them yourself. The images can be served
from any HTTP server, though in the interest of performance you'll
want to locate those images near the data center that you're booting in.
[create a Packet account]:https://app.packet.net/#/registration/
[create an API key]:https://help.packet.net/quick-start/api-integrations
Linuxkit is known to work on the Type 0 server at Packet.
Linuxkit is known to boot on the [Type 0] server at Packet.
Support for other server types, including the [Type 2A] ARM server,
is a work in progress.
[Type 0]:https://www.packet.net/bare-metal/servers/type-0/
[Type 2A]:https://www.packet.net/bare-metal/servers/type-2a/
## Boot
`linuxkit run packet -api-key PACKET_API_KEY -base-url http://path-to-my-pxe-boot-server ...`
Build an image with `moby build`. The [packet.yml](https://github.com/vielmetti/linuxkit/blob/master/examples/packet.yml)
example file provides a suitable template to start from.
Linuxkit on Packet [boots via iPXE]. This requires that you have
an HTTP server on which you can store your images. At the moment
there is no equivalent to "linuxkit push" to upload these images,
so you will have to host them yourself. The images can be served
from any HTTP server, though in the interest of performance you may
want to locate those images near the data center that you're booting in.
[boots via iPXE]:https://help.packet.net/technical/infrastructure/custom-ipxe
Servers take several minutes to provision. During this time their
state can be seen from the Packet console.
```
$ linuxkit run packet --help
USAGE: linuxkit run packet [options] [name]
Options:
-api-key string
Packet API key
-base-url string
Base URL that the kernel and initrd are served from.
-hostname string
Hostname of new instance (default "moby")
-img-name string
Overrides the prefix used to identify the files. Defaults to [name]
-machine string
Packet Machine Type (default "baremetal_0")
-project-id string
Packet Project ID
-zone string
Packet Zone (default "ams1")
```
## Console
If your LinuxKit system does not include an ssh or remote console
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## Disks
At this moment the Linuxkit server boots from RAM, with no persistent
storage.
storage and there is no code that mounts disks.
## Networking
Make sure that the interfaces come up bonded?
Some Packet server types have bonded networks; the current code does
not support that.
## Integration services and Metadata
Packet supports [user state](https://help.packet.net/technical/infrastructure/user-state)
during system bringup, which enables the boot process to be more informative about the
current state of the boot process once the kernel has loaded but before the
system is ready for login.