Getting to know virtualized bare metal
If/when you’re planning to run Kubernetes on-prem, two questions may pop up:
- Where are we going to run Kubernetes?
- How are we going to run Kubernetes?
In today’s world, chances are you’re not going to run Kubernetes directly on bare metal (although you could, and some companies do). You’ll probably run Kubernetes on a hypervisor such as ESXi or in a private cloud such as OpenStack. You may also run Kubernetes on virtualized bare metal, which is different than running it on a hypervisor.
In this section, let’s learn what virtualized bare metal is and a few ways that you can run it.
Virtualizing your environment
When thinking about virtualized bare metal, a lot of engineers will most likely think about a hypervisor such as VMware’s ESXi or Microsoft’s Hyper-V. Both are great solutions and allow you to take a bare-metal server that used to only be able to run one operating...
