k8s is considered "bare metal" these days?
Discussion
You can run your own cluster on bare metal yes.
On most clouds this was too expensive to run when I originally set it up so was forced to build my own but with more competition now I’ve found a managed solution that’s cost effective.
Oh that way. What's your provider? I'm on DigitalOcean, Vultr and Tencent.
Vultr and DigitalOcean clearly are second tier providers. Require the occasional node reboot and other manual interventions.
This wouldn't happen with first tier providers like AWS or Azure which I use at work.