Bare-Metal Infrastructure consists of physical computing resources on which an operating system, platform, or workload operates without an intervening server-virtualization hypervisor.
Bare-Metal Infrastructure can include:
Bare-Metal Infrastructure can exist within an organization-controlled data center, colocation facility, edge location, laboratory, secure facility, or Cloud Provider environment.
Within Crucible, Bare-Metal Infrastructure can serve as a Deployment Platform on which Crucible provisions operating systems, platform software, security controls, compliance controls, and supporting services directly onto physical computing resources.
*physical computing infrastructure on which an operating system, platform, or workload operates without an intervening server-virtualization hypervisor*
Bare-Metal Infrastructure does not necessarily mean infrastructure located on premises. A Cloud Provider can provide dedicated bare-metal servers as a managed or on-demand service.
The absence of a server-virtualization hypervisor does not prohibit container runtimes, operating-system virtualization, orchestration platforms, hardware-management controllers, or other software layers.
Bare-Metal Infrastructure can host Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform or another platform layer.
Crucible provisions an approved operating-system image, network configuration, storage configuration, security controls, compliance controls, and platform services directly onto a physical server without first creating a virtual machine.
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