This document discusses Kea, an open source DHCP server from ISC. It provides high-level summaries of Kea's design, features, and deployments. Kea was designed for high performance, modularity, and scalability. Notable deployments include a large ISP serving over 2 million users and Facebook using Kea in their datacenters for bare metal provisioning. Kea provides advantages like failure resilience, rapid configuration updates, and metrics collection.