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reassess_blind
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How I built this website on a Raspberry Pi
I've heard it called bare metal as opposed to a docker container or VM.
ekianjo
on Jan 19, 2025
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This is the Wikipedia definition which is the same thing as I said. If it's on top of an OS, it's not bare metal.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bare_machine
reassess_blind
on Jan 20, 2025
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Yeah, you're correct by the original definition - but in the modern context of Docker/k8s and web servers, "bare metal" is being colloquially used to refer to installing directly on the bare OS, and people understand that.
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