Bare metal ops aren’t what they used to be. The game’s gone full stack: API-driven provisioning, declarative workflows, and config convergence now run the show.
Tools like MAAS, Foreman, Ironic, and Tinkerbell treat physical servers as programmable units. Real hardware, real APIs. Meanwhile, Kubernetes-native models bring physical gear into the cluster fold using Custom Resources (see: Bare Metal Operator). It’s a weirdly elegant mashup - metal meets manifest.
