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.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).Also, not installing a n+3 Kubernetes cluster with an external storage backend reduces overheads and number of running cogs drastically.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.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.