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Those who are hosting on bare metal: What is stopping you from using Containers or VM's? What are you self hosting? (lemmy.world)
submitted 1 year ago by to c/selfhosted@lemmy.world
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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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[–] 10 points 1 year ago (2 children)

For me the learning curve of learning containers does not match the value proposition of what benefits they're supposed to provide.

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  • [–] 11 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    I really thought the same thing. But it truly is super easy. At least just the containers like docker. Not kubernetes, that shit is hard to wrap your head around.

    Plus if you screw up one service and mess everything up, you don’t have to rebuild your whole machine.

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  • [–] 6 points 1 year ago

    100% agree, my server has pretty much nothing except docker installed on it and every service I run is always in containers.

    Setting up a new service is mostly 0% risk and apps can't bog down my main file system with random log files, configs, etc that feel impossible to completely remove.

    I also know that if for any reason my server were to explode, all I would have to do is pull my compose files from the cloud and docker compose up everything and I am exactly where I left off at my last backup point.

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