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Yes there is! Check https://metal3.io/. It is a provider for the Cluster API targeting bare metal. If a machine fails, it can try rebooting first, then go through a full disk clean and re-installation. Alternatively you can mark it as unhealthy and it will just pick another machine instead (provided you have a spare). Source: 10 months ago
If you have proper servers with baseboard management you could use Cluster API and the Metal3 provider. It will not suspend the nodes, but actually deprovision then and turn them off. Https://metal3.io/ Full disclosure: I'm one of the maintainers. Source: 11 months ago
Notable there is it looks like they're using MAAS instead of MetalAPI that OpenShift (a competing distribution) prefers. It also looks like there's some sort of tie-in with their "Landscape" systems monitoring. AppArmor is involved which I'm assuming is a reference to the container hosts using MAC as a failsafe for container isolation. RH does something similar with SELinux on OpenShift where it uses SELinux's MCS... Source: about 1 year ago
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