Bare metal Kubernetes is a powerful set of technologies that builds on the best ideas behind the public and private cloud, yet abstracts away some toilsome aspects related to virtualisation management and networking. For operators and users, it provides significant benefits, making it easier and faster to ship and maintain complex, distributed applications.
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Bare metal Kubernetes has grown in popularity primarily due to the maturation of several key technologies. Those technologies center around providing cloud-like semantics and interfaces for bare metal management and provisioning (for example, MAAS – Metal as a Service), container management and orchestration (provided by Kubernetes), and hybrid cloud technologies allowing for coherent management of on- and off-premises servers (such as Juju).
But what exactly is bare metal Kubernetes?
Bare metal Kubernetes explained
As the name implies, two key…
