Old school Linux administration – my next homelab generation
As a person who manages a big fleet of servers containing both pets and cattle, the upkeep of the pets is nowhere near the cloud-lovers drum-up.<p>A server installed with half-decent care can run uninterrupted for a long long time, given minimal maintenance and usual care (update, and reboot if you change the kernel).<p>Also, not installing a n+3 Kubernetes cluster with an external storage backend reduces overheads and number of running cogs drastically.<p>VMs, containers, K8S and other things are nice, but pulling the trigger so blindly assuming every new technology is a silver bullet to all problems is just not right on many levels.<p>As for home hardware, I'm running a single OrangePi Zero with DNS and SyncThing. That fits the bill, for now. Fitting into smallest hardware possible is also pretty fun.