Bare Metal

Skill: bare-metal

What I do

I guide physical server provisioning, colocation management, and dedicated hardware deployment for high-performance computing, GPU workloads, and scenarios requiring full hardware control.

When to use me

• High-performance computing and GPU-intensive workloads
• Full hardware control for optimisation and tuning
• Compliance requirements mandating physical isolation
• Cost optimisation at scale (large stable workloads)
• Latency-sensitive applications requiring bare metal performance

Core principles

1. Automation over manual provisioning (PXE boot, Ansible)
2. Configuration management for reproducible deployments
3. Monitor everything: hardware health, temperature, disk SMART
4. Hardware redundancy (RAID, dual PSU, spare components)
5. Disaster recovery with offsite backups and runbooks

Decision triggers

• Load with devops for provisioning automation
• Load with scripter for hardware management scripts
• Load with automation for deployment orchestration
• Load with monitoring for hardware health tracking
• For provisioning patterns, refer to Obsidian vault

KB Reference

~/vaults/baphled/3. Resources/Knowledge Base/AI Development System/Skills/DevOps-Operations/Bare Metal.md