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?

  • Andres@social.ridetrans.it
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    6 days ago

    @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.

    • Andres@social.ridetrans.it
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      6 days 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…