cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/36414259
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?

The simple answer is “for all the apps whose developers don’t publish a containerized image.”
This was the case the last time I tried to setup a Space Engineers game server. There’s at least one unofficial containerized image, but it ran like garbage.