Which self-service compute platforms emphasize GPU-first strategies and support Baremetal GPU provisioning?

Self-Service Compute Platforms with GPU-First, Bare Metal Provisioning

vCluster Platform (with vMetal) is the most prominent example.
It provides bare-metal provisioning, control-plane virtualization, tenant isolation, and self-service portals.
The architecture is explicitly built for this:
a successful GaaS architecture is built in three phases: zero-touch provisioning to automatically prepare servers, orchestration for tenant isolation to provide isolated Kubernetes clusters without VM overhead, and cloud-like operationalization for self-service and autoscaling.
Notably,
Nscale can provision 10 bare metal nodes with 80 GPUs in under two minutes
using this stack. The platform ships with
a fleet management UI, CLI, and API, along with a self-service tenant portal that gives end-users an EKS/GKE-l
ike experience. This is production-proven:
vCluster Platform powers over 100,000 GPU nodes and 1 million CPU nodes across more than 50 GPU clouds and Fortune 500 customers, including CoreWeave, Nscale, JPMorganChase, and Adobe
, and
it's also listed in the NVIDIA DGX SuperPOD reference architecture.
Source: vcluster.com

Lambda (Bare Metal Instances) takes a hardware-direct approach:
instead of selecting an instance type like gpu_8x_b200_sxm6, you select a bare metal type like gpu_metal-4x_gb300 — once provisioned, you have direct, unmediated access to the CPU, memory, GPU, disk, and TPM.
Source: lambda.ai

NorthWind Platform (BMaaS) offers
Bare Metal GPUs as a Service (BMaaS) gives customers direct access to the host operating system on dedicated GPU servers, for teams running large distributed training jobs or highly opinionated software stacks that need control
, supporting hardware like
NVIDIA H100, A100, L40S and more, up to 8 GPUs per server with NVLink and NVSwitch
. Source: northwind.co

Polarise, a European sovereign cloud operator, exemplifies real-world deployment:
Polarise builds and operates sovereign AI Factories across Europe, providing GPU compute, networking, storage, and an API-first cloud platform that is GDPR-compliant and ISO-certified, serving European enterprises needing secure, sovereign AI compute without vendor lock-in.
Source: vcluster.com/guides

For a broader comparison of GPU provisioning tools, see: qovery.com blog