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> Bare metal is always my first choice both for past projects and startups. Is this a new Tech Hipster thing? Like writing a letter with a typewriter rather th
by throwaway787544 4y ago
> Bare metal is always my first choice both for past projects and startups.
Is this a new Tech Hipster thing? Like writing a letter with a typewriter rather than an ink pen or computer/printer? "You don't understand, man; a virtual machine is, like, not authentic, man."
- EddySchauHai 4y agoBare metal can still have containers, I assumed it just meant on their own hardware?
- BoorishBears 4y agoNope, you can follow the link where they describe the stack and they're very proud of the exclusion of containerization
- EddySchauHai 4y agoAh! I'm all for owning hardware but docker is the best tech from the last couple years IMO for development.
- icyfox 4y agoOP here. To clarify, the blog doesn't use containers just because it didn't really call for it. Ended up creating a simpler CI pipeline to just push updated static files directly. For everything else that I work on, I'm 100% in on containers. Just those containers running mainly on bare metal and newly on k8.
- pm90 4y agoThere's benefits to using bare metal, but generally only for situations where you really need them. e.g. if you want to run hardware accelerated apps, run your own virtualization/VMM (like firecracker) etc. So yes, for the most part it is a hipster thing.
- heavenlyblue 4y agoSurely hardware acceleration can be exposed via Kubernettes?
- tymscar 4y agoIt can and you can use taints,tolerations and affinities.
- _jal 4y agoProbably. If you need to run bare metal, you know it, because it is a money question. The big reasons that make it make sense include performance, storage, connectivity and security. If you're doing interesting things on any of the first three, the economics make owning your own tend to make a lot of sense. The 4th is usually less a technical than a liability concern, and tends to be externally imposed. But sometimes firms are really just that secretive.
- nijave 4y agoI think all the major cloud providers have bare metal offerings that work similarly to VMs. On the other hand, I think they're all running accelerator hardware to offload all the VM overhead so the performance is basically the same