Just came across this post on Reddit (yetch, I feel sullied and unusual) and am sharing it because…god damn…that’s the endgame right here -
https://old.reddit.com/r/selfhosted/comments/1rmfwoa/goodbye_google_i_selfhost_everything_now_on_4/
If you’re on here CaptainRedsLab, that’s an amazing rig.
Nb: I am not the creator of this project, I have no affiliation with them and I cannot answer any questions based on their build. I just think it’s cool as a shit and am sharing. YMMV
“Why did you climb Mt Everest?”
“Because it was there” - George Mallory
But also
“Simplicity is the ultimate sophistication” - some dude named after a Ninja turtle
PS: my homelab - for the longest time - was a Raspberry Pi 4B, with a 2TB hard-drive attached. Jokes aside, I have all the love for minimalism and spite engineering. Rock on.
I’m with you. I don’[ NEED a 5-node VM cluster on top of all the other crap.
But I wanted a 5-node VM cluster.
I went to a tech convention and a rancher dev had a demo backpack with a 5 node kubernetes cluster and I really wanted it. Just to have fun in a weird nerd sense.
I also appreciate that