Disclosure: I work on IBM cloud IBM has been running kubernetes on baremetals internally for over a year and just recently announced it as a product: https://w

Disclosure: I work on IBM cloud IBM has been running kubernetes on baremetals internally for over a year and just recently announced it as a product: https://www.ibm.com/blogs/cloud-computing/2018/03/managed-kubernetes-bare-metal/ https://www.ibm.com/blogs/cloud-computing/2018/03/managed-ku.... I will admit that it isn't as straightforward to get it to work as you might imagine at first. But once you've got the automation humming, its been a surprisingly easy to maintain. Would highly recommend that route! (but of course I'm biased since I've worked on it) One interesting use case is that its straightforward to access the underlying hardware on baremetal machines with `SecurityContext: priviliged` (you can do a much more fine-grained security permissions; I'm just giving an example). So for instance, you can access GPU's, TPM (trusted platform modules) this way.