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Those are just your run-of-the-mill black painted aluminum cut-to-fit running boards that you can get at most any truck accessory store, or buy online and install yourself, (preferably using a chop saw or miter saw with a metal cutting blade to cut the running boards to length).
You just cut the step section, attach the mudflaptype ends, and screw them into the fenderwells. Metal support brackets along the bottom bolt to the underbody or you can fab up some brackets using the stock nerf bar holes on the inside of the rockers.
They are relatively inexpensive, usually the least expensive kind of running boards, and are also available in bare aluminum (silver) color, as well as polished diamond plate.
One of the manufactuers I've found for that style is Owens, it's called the ClassicPro series: