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• atzanteol@sh.itjust.works ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  No. The phrase means that you’re not running in a virtual machine.

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  • ilmagico@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨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.

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    • atzanteol@sh.itjust.works ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Either way its pretty stupid to use it in reference to containers.

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      • ilmagico@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨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.

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