[randomjoe2]

Local doesn't refer to "on metal" anymore to many people

[mwcz]

"On metal" is muddied too. I've heard people refer to web apps running in an OCI container as being "bare metal" deployment, as opposed to AWS or whatever hosting platform.

That's silly, but the idea that "local" is not the opposite of remote is even sillier.

[dtech]

If you do bare metal as not being under a VM it fits. OCI on linux is cgroup so that counts as not a VM I'd say. Or at least it's a layer closer to the metal than a typical VM running OCI images.

I a Java app running on Linux bare metal?

[ffsm8]

You can run an OCI container on bare metal though. It doesn't stop being run on bare metal just because you're running in kernel namespaces, aka docker container

Lots of people were advocating for running their k8s on bare metal servers to maximize the performance of their containers

Now wherever that's applied to your conversation... I've no clue, too little context ( ｡ ŏ ﹏ ŏ )

[bee_rider]

Local doesn’t need to be “on metal,” but I’m still confused as to what they are saying. Are they running some local cloud system?

[monsieurbanana]

I missed that train

[vFunct]

My basement server really confused by all this...