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[–] 4 points 9 months ago (6 children)
  • Users will stop referring to non-containerized applications as "running on bare metal"
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  • [–] 4 points 9 months ago (1 child)

    TBH its not the users fault, the documentation is always like (click here for docker install instructions, or if you don't want docker click here for bare metal instructions) and the latter is just apt get and some config edits.

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  • [–] 4 points 9 months ago (3 children)

    What are we supposed to call it? Genuine question

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  • [–] 2 points 9 months ago (2 children)

    Non-containerized applications. Not in a container. It's not complicated. Running "on bare metal" sounds cool but it's a wildly inaccurate description. Containerized applications run on the system natively just like non-containerized applications. So if one of them runs "on bare metal" then then others do as well.

    But historically "on bare metal" is used for embedded or micro-controllers where you don't have an OS.

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