Not really a cloud developer, so I looked up a couple of links and I haven't been able to find any uses of the term other than referring to a single-tenant machine that you have complete control over, as opposed to virtualized solutions.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bare-metal_server https://www.ibm.com/cloud/bare-metal-servers/hosting-solutio... https://www.ionos.com/digitalguide/server/know-how/bare-meta... https://www.rackspace.com/library/what-is-a-bare-metal-serve...

For web, yes. For embedded systems, "bare metal" means running without an OS.

That’s both correct and irrelevant because this entire thread is about running Apache, which is clearly about the web, considering Apache is a web server.

You know whats funny? If be excited to see Apache run embedded on hardware.

This comment is claiming way too many victims. Shame, it'd be a rather exciting experiment!

Bare metal is often used to mean using a CPU instead of a vCPU. But I can see why you would interpret it the way you did.