Ship It Conversations: Jake Warner on Cycle.io, Bare Metal’s Comeback, and Why Private Cloud Is Getting Interesting Again

About this episode

Jake Warner discusses the resurgence of private cloud and bare metal infrastructure in a conversation about modern infrastructure complexities.

This is a guest conversation episode of Ship It Weekly , separate from the weekly news recaps. In this Ship It: Conversations episode, I talk with Jake Warner, founder and CEO of Cycle.io, about private cloud, bare metal, Kubernetes fatigue, and why some teams are rethinking how much infrastructure complexity they actually want to carry. We talk about why bare metal and private cloud are getting interesting again, especially around cost, performance, data sovereignty, compliance, and platform ownership. Jake explains how Cycle approaches infrastructure as a pool of resources, why he thinks in terms of “environments as code” instead of traditional infrastructure as code, and how teams can run containers and VMs together across bare metal, cloud, and hybrid environments. The bigger theme here is that this is not really a “cloud versus bare metal” conversation. It is about choosing the right level of abstraction. Sometimes Kubernetes is the right answer. Sometimes managed cloud services make sense. And sometimes teams just need a more opinionated platform that lets developers ship without requiring a large DevOps army to keep everything running. Highlights • Why some teams are…

People in this episode

Guest: Jake Warner

Topics covered

• private cloud
• bare metal
• infrastructure complexity
• Kubernetes fatigue
• cost and performance
• data sovereignty
• platform ownership

Keywords

• private cloud
• bare metal
• Kubernetes
• infrastructure as code
• environments as code
• cost
• performance
• data sovereignty
• compliance

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: Cycle.io, Kubernetes

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