Docker on bare metal?

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Lloyd R. Prentice picture Lloyd R. Prentice · Nov 20, 2013 · Viewed 14.1k times · Source

On the Docker website I see mention of Docker on "bare metal". Does this mean that you can run Docker on hardware with no underlying OS?

If so, how would one install/implement it?

Answer

Jessie Frazelle picture Jessie Frazelle · Feb 17, 2015

Yes, the bare metal in the docs refers to a server that is not in a hypervisor or "cloud server". But running on bare metal.

However if you are interested there has been this experiment as running docker as PID 1 https://github.com/ibuildthecloud/only-docker

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