Comment by sudomateo

You're completely skipping the management of the bare-metal hardware itself. Sure, you can buy a stack of whatever commodity hardware you want and run Kubernetes on bare-metal. What about updating the firmware on that hardware? What about expanding and the hardware you purchases is longer available? Now you have more disparate hardware that may not even be compatible with the software you're running. Those problems exist at scale and is what Oxide is tackling. It's more than just buying a computer and set it and forget it.