There's a better explanation of what's going on over here: http://ocadotechnology.com/blog/creating-a-distributed-data-...

There's some libvirt stuff, but that's mostly for local testing without having a bunch of physical hardware.

The key things I'm trying to do are: - Automatically provision new machines, just by plugging them in. - Don't have a traditional network (i.e. switches)

From the article, you're using Quagga -- are you aware of the active fork FRRouting[0]? It was forked about 8 months ago and is over 3,000 commits ahead since most of the core developers have stopped developing Quagga.

[0] https://github.com/FRRouting/frr

Yes, but thanks :)

FRRouting took off after I'd already moved on to other things. I've dropped an issue in the repo so I remember, when I get a chance to work on Kubermesh again

NUCs are pretty standard for how many people are testing bare metal installations on the cheap. It's what we use in the labs at CoreOS.

This looks like an opinionated installation for an actual bare metal cluster complete with anycast mirrors of popular registries. Minikube is only really good for running in a VM locally.

Just to clarify - there are a few NUCs, but its mostly SuperMicros and other vendors where testing and qa are done.