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?

  • 51dusty@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    16 hours ago

    my two bare metal servers are the file server and music server. I have other services in a pi cluster.

    file server because I can’t think of why I would need to use a container.

    the music software is proprietary and requires additional complications to get it to work properly…or at all, in a container. it also does not like sharing resources and is CPU heavy when playing to multiple sources.

    if either of these machines die, a temporary replacement can be sourced very easily(e.g. the back of my server closet) and recreated from backups while I purchase new or fix/rebuild the broken one.

    IMO the only reliable method for containers is a cluster because if you’re running several containers on a device and it fails you’ve lost several services.