For on premise environment, does your company run Kubernetes worker nodes on VM or BM(bare metal), and why?

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Director of IT in Softwarea month ago

We are a software company, and apart from partial lab environments, we run the majority of our Kubernetes clusters on bare metal to achieve better performance by eliminating the hypervisor layer overhead and avoiding the need for VM provisioning.

Director of IT3 months ago

As a banking company, we used VM because of existing management mechanism on VMware. However, the K8s product fee on VM is much higher than on BM.

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