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		dewey on Oct 26, 2023 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: The Cloud Computer I always thought it's just about the hardware but it seems like it also includes it's own kind of virtualization / provisioning interface for VMs, firewalls and also an overview over running software. Does this "lock" you into the Oxide platform and you just buy into the whole thing instead of buying some server from Dell, then running some Proxmox like software and a Docker host?

depr on Oct 26, 2023 | [–]

You run VMs on their platform, so it doesn't lock you in more than any cloud host locks you into their provisioning interface.

wpm on Oct 27, 2023 | [–]

The VMs are bhyve on illumos. They're about as hard to move off as moving a datacenter sized Proxmox cluster to anything else.

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