Comment on I dockerized my Nextcloud
ilmagico@lemmy.world 7 months agoWell, since we want to be technical … Docker is not bare metal. Linux apps are not bare metal. Arduino is bare metal.
Comment on I dockerized my Nextcloud
ilmagico@lemmy.world 7 months agoWell, since we want to be technical … Docker is not bare metal. Linux apps are not bare metal. Arduino is bare metal.
atzanteol@sh.itjust.works 7 months ago
No. The phrase means that you’re not running in a virtual machine.
ilmagico@lemmy.world 7 months ago
That’s only the meaning you’re used to, and that’s my point. It depends on the context. I can assure you that, in the context of microcontrollers, for example, “bare metal” means running without an OS.
atzanteol@sh.itjust.works 7 months ago
Either way its pretty stupid to use it in reference to containers.
ilmagico@lemmy.world 7 months ago
My point is, since its meaning depends on the context, I don’t see the issue for it to mean, in the context of containers, “outside of a container”. Just like in the case of VMs, or OS vs No OS, it means there’s one fewer layer between the app and the hardware, whether that’s a VM, Container runtime, or the OS.
I’m pretty sure everybody, including you, understood its meaning in this context, it didn’t really cause any misunderstanding.