bare-metal
Bare-metal runs software directly on physical hardware without a hypervisor, providing maximum performance, predictability, and resource control.
Bare-metal environments allow operating systems and applications direct access to hardware resources, eliminating virtualization overhead and delivering high performance and low latency for compute-intensive workloads.
With dedicated hardware, users gain full control over CPU, memory, storage, and network configurations, making bare-metal ideal for high-performance computing, I/O-intensive databases, and latency-sensitive applications.
While sacrificing some flexibility and multi-tenancy, bare-metal offers strong isolation and predictable performance. Modern automation tools and provisioning frameworks simplify the deployment and lifecycle management of bare-metal servers.