Basalt capabilities

What Basalt does

Basalt is a private-cloud control plane for compute, networking, storage, and AI-assisted operations. These pages describe the concrete platform features rather than vague cloud claims.

Compute

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Full KVM/libvirt VM lifecycle with live migration, templates, cloud-init, browser console, GPU passthrough, and hot-plug — all through a single API.

KVM live migration
Template deployment
GPU passthrough

Networking

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OVS-native software-defined networking with VLAN, VXLAN, and flat zones, OpenFlow-enforced security groups, and managed L3 routers with BGP and OSPF.

VLAN / flat / VXLAN zones
OpenFlow microsegmentation
BGP / OSPF / NAT

Storage

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Multi-backend storage pools, built-in Ceph RBD orchestration, DRBD replication, and a resilient image library with chunked-resume uploads.

Directory / LVM / NFS / iSCSI
Ceph RBD orchestration
Chunked-resume uploads

AI Integration

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Native MCP server, capability reasoning, manifest-driven self-awareness, and in-guest telemetry for infrastructure that can explain itself.

MCP read tools
CapabilityReason explanations
Manifest projection