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by merb 3055 days ago
since you mentioned Cloudfoundry... I think it's a thousand times easier to get up and running with k8s, than with Cloudfoundry on Bare-Metal (no Cloud).

It's also a thousand times easier to maintain. (Thanks CoreOS) Basically if you want a managed simple no maintance, no cost bare-metal K8S installation you basically just use tectonic/kubeadm and you get something which is self-containing, or close to self-containing. and the only things you need to get it done is actually way easier than reading through cf docs (I'm pretty sure bare-metal isn't even supported that easily).

running some services on top of it is than pretty simple, especially if you want to use a single ip, insteand of roundobin dns (https://github.com/kubernetes/contrib/tree/master/keepalived...)

and if you have k8s running, adding some PaaS layer on top (openshift) can be pretty simple.

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> I'm pretty sure bare-metal isn't even supported that easily

BOSH with the RackHD CPI does this. It's the same basic operator experience across every platform with a CPI.

Disclosure: I work for Pivotal, we work on this stuff.

bare-metal without openstack.
RackHD is not OpenStack.

https://rackhd.github.io/