This article examines the recent Go proposal to add a GOOS=none target, enabling Go programs to run on bare‑metal hardware without an operating system, outlines the TamaGo project's achievements, discusses compatibility challenges, and evaluates the potential impact on Go’s future development and use cases.
This article explains what bare metal servers are, their key features such as exclusive hardware use, cloud‑style management, and zero virtualization overhead, compares them with traditional physical servers, outlines use cases like AI, big data, and HPC, and details the OpenStack Ironic and DPU‑based implementation by MaShang Cloud.
This guide walks developers with C and assembly experience through building a simple bare‑metal operating system that runs directly on ARM64 hardware without any existing OS or bootloader, offering a hands‑on introduction to low‑level system concepts for students, embedded engineers, and computer‑system enthusiasts.
This guide details a lightweight AT command parsing module supporting both bare‑metal and OS versions, explains its architecture, core data structures, key APIs, and provides step‑by‑step usage examples—including GPIO testing, signal‑quality queries, and TCP data transmission—for modems, Wi‑Fi and Bluetooth communication.
This article introduces an AT‑command communication parsing module that supports both bare‑metal (at_chat) and OS‑based versions, explains its software architecture, core data structures, key interfaces, and provides step‑by‑step usage examples with complete C code snippets for Wi‑Fi, Bluetooth, and modem integration.
Google reports that its ongoing migration of Android's native components from C++ to Rust has reduced memory‑related security bugs, with Rust now powering about 21% of new native code in Android 13 and being used to rewrite critical security modules such as the protected virtual machine firmware.
This article examines the trade‑offs between running Kubernetes on bare metal versus virtual machines, covering performance differences, orchestration complexity, hardware visibility, capacity planning, network impact, and when each approach makes sense for modern cloud‑native workloads.
Rust 1.62 introduces notable performance improvements on Linux, adds the convenient ‘cargo add’ command for managing dependencies directly from the terminal, and brings bare‑metal development enhancements such as new target support and updated APIs, with easy upgrade instructions for developers eager to adopt the latest stable release.
Facing the limitation of LoadBalancer services on bare‑metal Kubernetes, this guide walks through the background, MetalLB overview, and step‑by‑step deployment using BGP, including environment setup, configuration files, and verification of external IP routing.
The article examines the advantages and disadvantages of deploying container cloud platforms on bare‑metal servers versus virtual machines in the financial sector, covering performance, cost, management, security, workload suitability, and practical recommendations for banks based on their IaaS capabilities.
The article argues that programs can indeed run without an operating system by treating the OS itself as a program, discusses the challenges of bootstrapping, memory management, multitasking, device drivers, and concludes that bare‑metal programming lets developers fully control hardware, effectively creating their own minimal OS.
This article explains why deploying Kubernetes on bare‑metal servers offers six key benefits—simpler networking, better cost efficiency for demanding workloads, superior performance, stronger security, workload‑specific optimization, and freedom from vendor lock‑in—making it a smarter choice than virtual‑machine‑based solutions.
The article analyzes the trade‑offs of deploying container platforms on bare‑metal servers versus virtual machines in banks, covering performance, cost, management, security, workload flexibility, and IaaS capabilities to help decide the optimal underlying compute resource.
This article explains how JD Intelligent Cloud’s bare metal cloud hosts delivered near‑physical performance, automated operations, and strong isolation to support the 11.11 shopping festival’s billions of visits and millions of concurrent requests, detailing architecture, performance gains, and integration with Kubernetes.
This article explains the concept of bare metal services in cloud computing, details the deployment and runtime phases of 360Stack bare metal servers using OpenStack Ironic, and compares flat, VLAN, and VXLAN network modes with accompanying architecture diagrams and configuration steps.
This article explains the concept of bare metal services in cloud computing, details OpenStack Ironic's role, walks through the provisioning and running phases, and compares flat, VLAN, and VXLAN network modes for deploying bare metal servers.
This article analyzes the complexities of deploying Kubernetes on Alibaba Cloud, compares bare‑metal and virtual machine worker nodes, evaluates container runtimes and security sandboxes, and provides practical guidance for selecting instance types, cluster size, multi‑cluster strategies, and serverless options.
Alibaba’s 2019 Double 11 campaign saw a record 54.4 k orders per second and 970 PB of data, prompting a full cloud‑native transformation that migrated 100% of core applications to the cloud using Kubernetes, containers, the Shenlong bare‑metal servers, service mesh, and OAM, delivering scalable, resilient performance.
This article details a step‑by‑step offline installation of an OpenShift 4 enterprise high‑availability cluster on bare‑metal, covering prerequisites, static‑IP configuration without DHCP or load balancers, mirror registry setup, installation pitfalls, post‑install tasks, and extensive troubleshooting tips.
This talk outlines why organizations pursue cloud adoption, defines cloud‑native goals, reviews emerging trends such as bare‑metal and hyper‑convergence, and shares practical private‑cloud operation experiences, including ITIL processes, project management, and tooling, offering a comprehensive view of national‑level private‑cloud practice.
The 2018 OpenStack User Survey, based on 1,483 responses from 858 projects across 63 countries, uncovers how OpenStack is expanding beyond IT, the rise of Kubernetes and bare‑metal services, multi‑cloud adoption patterns, and the top software and hardware vendors shaping the global cloud market.
This article explains how OpenStack Ironic enables bare‑metal provisioning as a cloud service, outlines scenarios where physical servers outperform virtual machines, details Ironic’s architecture and evolution, compares billing models, and highlights future trends for bare‑metal cloud offerings.
This article explains why X86 bare‑metal services are essential for high‑performance, security‑critical workloads, describes their architecture and management processes, and outlines the steps—standardization, automation, service‑orientation, and self‑service—used by Hengfeng Bank to implement and operate them.
OpenStack Ironic is a dedicated bare‑metal service that replaces Nova’s original driver, using PXE and IPMI to automate physical server deployment, power management, and resource discovery, integrating with Keystone, Nova, Neutron, Glance, and Cinder to provide cloud‑like provisioning for real hardware.
Server virtualization, a key cloud computing technology, encompasses various architectures—including hosted, bare‑metal, operating‑system level, and hybrid virtualization—each with distinct mechanisms for resource abstraction, and the article compares these models while highlighting trends toward hardware‑assisted solutions such as KVM, Hyper‑V, and VMware.
The Ctrip OpenStack Shanghai meetup gathered over 100 practitioners to share in‑depth technical sessions on Neutron distributed virtual routing, SDN and network virtualization, OpenStack upgrade and Bare Metal, large‑scale OpenStack operations at eBay, mobile management solutions, and Ctrip's desktop cloud platform.
