Most businesses do not have a constant workload 24/7, which means the ability to scale up and down will save more money than reducing the overhead of not running directly on metal.
There is also the cost of having to care about hardware to begin with.
Also, in the big picture, having 100 companies doing their own bare metal deployments is not terrible efficient, compared to 1 company doing that and 99 paying the first company for this service.
The list could go on, but I think you get my point.
This sounds like classic devops/cloud snake oil.
I wonder what industry pays your bills?
* The most businesses/always on reasoning appeals to executive decision makers and rolls down hill to the technical people who are best educated to make the
decision.
Many people who believe that you can cut cost by sizing workloads end up racing their own models when it doesn't scale financially or computationally over time.
* What is so difficult about hardware? The cost of forgetting how to deal with it will be much higher
in the long run.
Seems all 3 major cloud providers, aws, google and azure, are providing facilities to run docker containers. Seems Digital Ocean is getting there too. Hardly a monopoly, init?
> What is so difficult about hardware?
All of it. This is knowledge my company doesn't have and there is no point in investing in accuiring this knowledge at this time, since we have an easier solution. Not to mention that if we decide going bare metal is the way to go, we can do that later.
> The most businesses [...]
I think my english is failing me, I don't really understand this paragraph.
> This sounds like classic devops/cloud snake oil. I wonder what industry pays your bills?
Most businesses do not have a constant workload 24/7, which means the ability to scale up and down will save more money than reducing the overhead of not running directly on metal.
There is also the cost of having to care about hardware to begin with.
Also, in the big picture, having 100 companies doing their own bare metal deployments is not terrible efficient, compared to 1 company doing that and 99 paying the first company for this service.
The list could go on, but I think you get my point.