Interesting, I always thought Bare Metal is synonym for actual hardware server, but the author mixes those:<p>> Bare metal for this conversation means a regular VM/VPS provider or a regular private provider like Proxmox with no special services - or actual hardware.<p>Is this a common theme nowadays?<p>The article itself is of course really nice, it shows that "Kubernetes is hard to set up" theme is not always right.
Slightly off topic, but I feel like calling an internet server running an OS "bare-metal" is a disgrace to what "bare-metal" originally and historically referred to, i.e. computer hardware without any OS. Maybe IaaS providers are running out of creative names that they are now polluting other techs' namespace?
I used Kubespray on Container Linux with Calico. Maybe I got lucky but I had it working perfectly almost first try. I think I needed to handle like one error in the entire Ansible playbook.