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by DasIch 368 days ago
All hardware is unreliable and it's only a question of scale whether the probability of failure gets high enough that you need self-healing.
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> All hardware is unreliable (...)

The whole point is that none of the main cloud providers runs containers directly on bare metal servers, and even their own VPS are resilient to their own hardware failures.

Then there's the whole debate on whether it's a good idea to put together a Kubernetes cluster running on, say, EC2 instances.