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?

  • TheMightyCat@ani.socialEnglish
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    3 days ago

    I’m selfhosting Forgejo and i don’t really see the benefit of migrating to a container, i can easily install and update it via the package manager so what benefit does containerization give?

    • turmoil@feddit.orgEnglish
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      3 days ago

      If you don’t exceed a single deployment, it’s fine.

      If however in the future, you want to add additional services to your host, let’s say an alerting or status system, it’s a lot easier to declare everything in a single place and then attach a reverse proxy to manage networking multiple services on one host.