awesome-baremetal

There are a bunch of ways to manage bare metal servers apart from Nix. People have been doing it for years. Kickstart, theforeman, maas, etc, [0]. Many to choose from according to your needs and layers you want them to manage. Reality is these days you just boot a basic image that runs containers [0] Longer list here: https://github.com/alexellis/awesome-baremetal

The "Self Hosted" list on awesome-baremetal would probably be interesting to look over for this: https://github.com/alexellis/awesome-baremetal#self-hosted

Happy to hear it! Alex also put together this pretty comprehensive list of tooling in the space which is worth a look: https://github.com/alexellis/awesome-baremetal

There's a renewed interest in on-prem bare metal recently with a lot of different offerings helping to make various parts of the stack easier to manage. Awesome bare metal is a new repo created by Alex Ellis that tracks a lot of the projects: https://github.com/alexellis/awesome-baremetal Also we (Packet) just open sourced Tinkerbell, our bare metal provisioning engine: https://www.packet.com/blog/open-sourcing-tinkerbell/

Funny you should ask - bare-metal is probably one of the better options - https://github.com/alexellis/awesome-baremetal