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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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[–] kutsyk_alexander@lemmy.world 8 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago) (2 children)

I use Raspberry Pi 4 with 16GB SD-card. I simply don't have enough memory and CPU power for 15 separate database containers for every service which I want to use.

[–] comrade_twisty@feddit.org 3 points 5 days ago (1 children)

Databases on sd cards are a nightmare for sd card lifetimes. I would really recommend getting at least a USD SSD stick instead if you want to keep it compact.

Your SD card will die suddenly someday in the near future otherwise.

[–] kutsyk_alexander@lemmy.world 7 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago)

Thank you for your advice. I do use an external hard drive for my data.

[–] kiol@lemmy.world 3 points 5 days ago (1 children)

So, are you running 15 services on the Pi 4 without containers?

[–] kutsyk_alexander@lemmy.world 6 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago) (1 children)

The list of what I run on my RPi:

Some of them run in containers, some of them run on the bare metal.

[–] kiol@lemmy.world 1 points 4 days ago (1 children)

I see. Are you the only user?

[–] kutsyk_alexander@lemmy.world 1 points 4 days ago (1 children)
[–] RvTV95XBeo@sh.itjust.works -1 points 4 days ago

Is your favorite color purple?