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?

  • towerful@programming.devEnglish
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    4 days ago

    I would always run proxmox to set up docker VMs.

    I found Talos Linux, which is a dedicated distro for kubernetes. Which aligned with my desire to learn k8s.
    It was great. I ran it as bare-metal on a 3 node cluster. I learned a lot, I got my project complete, everything went fine.
    I will use Talos Linux again.
    However next time, I’m running proxmox with 2 VMs per node - 3 talos control VMs and 3 talos worker VMs.
    I imagine running 6 servers with Talos is the way to go. Running them hyperconverged was a massive pain. Separating control plane and data/worker plane (or whatever it is) makes sense - it’s the way k8s is designed.
    It wasn’t the hardware that had issues, but various workloads. And being able to restart or wipe a control node or a worker node would’ve made things so much easier.

    Also, why wouldn’t I run proxmox?
    Overhead is minimal, get nice overview, get a nice UI, and I get snapshots and backups