The tooling should be getting close to manage this on-prem now, with VM's, K8s clusters, networking, storage, etc. I know that oxide computers exists, and they look fantastic, but there has got to be more 'open' ways to run things on your own Dell/HP/Supermicro servers with NVMe drives. Especially since VMware has jacked up their prices since being acquired.
Talos OS looks really interesting. But I also need the storage parts, networking parts, etc.
I run several Talos clusters (provisioned by Cluster API) on commodity hardware which is part of a Proxmox cluster in my homelab
teams can't even run k8s in the cloud. teams I've seen running k8s on prem have always been disaster shows. productivity in the gutter.
the tooling to manage on prem is truly awful, and attempts to port the nice semantics of cloud have all slowly died (who remembers localstack?)