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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?

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[โ€“] kiol@lemmy.world 1 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Cool, care to share more specifics on your Pi Cluster

[โ€“] 51dusty@lemmy.world 1 points 10 months ago

I followed one of the many guides for installing proxmox on Rpis. 3node, 4gb rpi4s

I use the cluster for lighter services like Trilium, FreshRss, secondary DNS, a jumpbox... and something else I forget. I'm going to try immich and see how it performs.

my recent goto for cheap($200-300) servers are Debian + old Intel Macbook pros. I have two Minecraft bedrock servers on MBPs... one an i5, the other an i7.

I also use a Lenovo laptop to host some industrial control software for work.