Curious to know what the experiences are for those who are sticking to bare metal. Would like to better understand what keeps such admins from migrating to containers, Docker, Podman, Virtual Machines, etc. What keeps you on bare metal in 2025?

  • Frezik@lemmy.blahaj.zoneEnglish
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    9 hours ago

    My file server is also the container/VM host. It does NAS duties while containers/VMs do the other services.

    OPNsense is its own box because I prefer to separate it for security reasons.

    Pihole is on its own RPi because that was easier to setup. I might move that functionality to the AdGuard plugin on OPNsense.

    • HiTekRedNek@lemmy.worldEnglish
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      6 hours ago

      My reasons for keeping OpnSense on bare metal mirror yours. But additionally I don’t want my network to take a crap because my proxmox box goes down.

      I constantly am tweaking that machine…