Status: IN
Bare metal edge deployments require specialized infrastructure at every layer AND fleet-scale lifecycle management: provisioning uses BMC+Ironic+MetalLB (not cloud APIs), while ZTP+TALM handle provisioning and updates at scale with canary failure gating — making bare metal edge the most infrastructure-demanding deployment topology.
depth-2 bare metal infra + depth-2 edge fleet management combine into the most operationally complex deployment model
Depends on (SL): bare-metal-requires-specialized-infra-at-every-layer, edge-fleet-management-pipeline