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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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[–] Andres4NY@social.ridetrans.it 1 points 10 months ago (1 children)

@kiol On the other hand, for doing builds (debian packages and random other stuff), I'll use podman containers. I've got a self-built build environment that I trust (debootstrap'd), and it's pretty simple to create a new build env container for some package, and wipe it when it gets too messy over time and create a new one. And for building larger packages I've got ccache, which doesn't get wiped by each different build; I've got multiple chromium build containers w/ ccache, llvm build env, etc

[–] Andres4NY@social.ridetrans.it 2 points 10 months ago (1 children)

@kiol And then there's the stuff that's not packaged in Debian, like navidrome. I use a container for that for simplicity, and because if it breaks it's not a big deal - temporary downtime of email is bad, temporary downtime of my streaming flac server means I just re-listen to the stuff that my subsonic clients have cached locally.

[–] Andres4NY@social.ridetrans.it 1 points 10 months ago

@kiol Syncthing? Restic? All packaged nicely in Debian, no need for containers. I do use Ansible (rather than backups) for ensuring if a drive dies, I can reproduce the configuration. That's still very much a work-in-progress though, as there's stuff I set up before I started using Ansible...