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 -
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
Awesome stuff but here I am with my single mini PC that has Jellyfin and Immich wondering why I would need such a big setup.
At some point I realized that the more complex I make it, the more resources it needs and the more maintenance it needs so I only get things I think I really need.
I run a lot of services on a single old NUC I got for less than 100 dollars. I added some RAM (back then when you could buy some) and a new NVMe stick later when, but since then this single machine could handle all I asked it to do.
I couldn’t even get immich to work properly :(
I need to spend another weekend starting from scratch but network protocol just completely evades me.
“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.