Pedaling towards bare-metal Kubernetes, Nutanix forges NKP Metal

The cloud is for everyone, but not necessarily always for everything, remember? While that saying is still largely true, we now tend to talk about on-premises deployments and even isolated instances as a private cloud in the same vein as public clouds, with hybrid instances halfway between the two.

Then, of course, there is bare metal, which is distinguished from the private cloud by being physical servers without a virtualization layer. With on-premises cloud, you’re obviously still using virtualization and orchestration software to mimic some degree of public cloud features, such as self-service and scaling.

Cloud core nomenclature aside, so what’s next in this space?

Nutanix wants to champion its latest NKP Metal services, which extend the Nutanix operating model and the Nutanix Kubernetes Platform (NKP) service to support Kubernetes deployments directly on core infrastructure.

K8S bare metal bonus factor?

But why run Kubernetes bare metal? Because…