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  Bare metal cloud is the main computing service within Zenlayer's edge cloud
  products.
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# Overview

You can learn about the following information before you try bare metal cloud:

* [**What is and why choose bare metal cloud?**](overview/bare-metal-instance)
* [**What are the supported models, zones and operating systems?**](overview/models-zones-and-operating-system)
* [**What is an elastic IP?**](overview/public-network/elastic-ip)
* [**What is a VLAN?**](overview/public-network/public-virtual-interface)
* [**What is a virtual private cloud?**](overview/private-network/virtual-private-cloud)
