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?

  • AA5B@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    4 hours ago

    Same here. In particular I like small cheap hardware to act as appliances, and have several raspberry pi.

    My example is home assistant. Deploying on its own hardware means an officially supported management layer, which makes my life easier. It is actually running containers but i don’t have to deal with that. It also needs to be always available so i use efficient “right sized” hardware and it works regardless whether im futzing with my “lab”

    • Damage@feddit.itEnglish
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      4 hours ago

      My example is home assistant. Deploying on its own hardware means an officially supported management layer, which makes my life easier.

      If you’re talking about backups and updates for addons and core, that works on VMs as well.

      • AA5B@lemmy.worldEnglish
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        15 minutes ago

        For my use case, I’m continually fiddling with my VM config. That’s my playground, not just the services hosted there. I want home assistant to always be available so it can’t be there.

        I suppose I could have a “production “ vm server that I keep stable, separately from my “dev” vm server but that would be more effort. Maybe it’s simply that I don’t have many services I want to treat as production, so the physical hardware is the cheapest and easiest option