Why we decided for and against Ubuntu Core
I work in a different industry and am responsible for maintaining a fleet of bare metal OSes (we currently use Ubuntu).<p>Bare metal management really feels like an unsolved problem. Whilst everybody working with cloud environments is whisked away by the latest shiny tools like Docker and Ansible, those of us working with bare metal are still trying to find a way to keep machines up and running with an OS that doesn&#x27;t get corrupted from unexpected poweroffs or permanently cut itself off from the network because of a bad config.<p>The only existing candidate I&#x27;ve seen is Balena, but it only supports specific hardware and the cost is probably so high that we wouldn&#x27;t be making a profit if we went with it.<p>At my current employer we are building a custom flavor of Ubuntu and provision it with Puppet, but we still get failures, and it&#x27;s far from the immutable haven that DevOps guys would be used to.