Pomdan won’t work on my system because that is my alias to send Dan a message that I would like some more Pom.

It’s a daemonless client for managing Linux containers. So any “docker” container. Most Linux distros have a native package for it too

Hey, don’t blow my cover

I use OpenSuse, Fedora, and Arch.

This meme is too accurate

There is some politics that has to be played. There HAS to be some reason for the powers to be to see benign neglect as beneficial or some power brokerage built on top of it.

Rancher Desktop?

K3d?

Or something else?

Pre-installed with the craziest bloatware too. I had multiple come to me thinking there computers were hacked they had so much trash from the factory on them

CloudNative PG is so far my favorite. I also prefer a PG per App.

Fosai@lemmy.world would probably be a good place

I’m imagining some script that only functions based on the angle/position of the rats spin

Vim unless I can neovim.

Being able to change configs on headless systems was my gateway, now I just prefer it

I really enjoy the pikvm and the switcher for my home lab. Redfish support gets fishy with a switcher if that is a concern though.

I do love a good mesh for a cluster block though. My next next next project is using KubeOVN to turn my cluster block into a switch with “out” connections to connection other devices (wifi, laptop, cameras, etc) to it as my network router and of course upstream from the modem and hotspot for Internet connection.

I would recommend 4-5 nodes. 5 if you want true high availability. 4 still requires some intervention in case of failure.

Just because it’s bare metal. Got to think of your Mean Time to Repair (MTTR) which is to say if a whole node goes bust how long will it take to potentially order and install a new one.

If you go kubernetes (k8s) I would recommend rke2 or k3s. They are really straightforward setups and pretty enterprise ready out of the box.

If you have a hard requirement for Ceph I would recommend doing Rook-Ceph which makes deploying and management a lot easier by letting k8s handle it. For simpler but less performant (in my testing) persistent volumes (PVs) like ceph Longhorn is really easy to deploy and manage.

For backups Velero is really nice for apps in your cluster, since it can be done per namespace and include PV data too. Rke2/k3s both have nice etcd (the backend data base for k8s) snapshoting and backup tools too for full disaster recovery.

Rke2/k3s both have ways to auto deploying charts from the filesystem too https://docs.rke2.io/add-ons/helm

This is a good stepping stone for GitOps imho. If that matters to you at all. Starting with just having a git dir for these files, then later doing some like ArgoCD

I would also recommend, since you are looking at hyper converged storage have dedicated network lines for it is generally recommended. So create a bond of two ports per node just for storage, tag them with their own vlan, and in your setup of rook or longhorn specific that vlan interface as the device for data to flow.

Pxe boot is also nice at this scale, either setup on your router (OpenWrt has decent support), you maintance laptop/machine, and/or do something like Tinkerbell (cloud native pxe from your k8s cluster!). It’s just nice to be able to blow away a node and rebuild if you are tinkering a lot.

Remember cattle not pets, and welcome to the range cowpoke!

The pikvm and pikvm switch are really fun tbh

I mean even more options there like Longhorn or Rook-Ceph

I mean yeah. This was the very reason to dump a ton into “the metaverse” in order to maximize possible data collection

That would be the second. The first would cover the right to share information about building your own uncensored 3d printer and designs and plans for legal arms.

There are cases of but also on going programs.

Their building a Prison System ™️ regardless, open source (e.g. Linux) just offers SOME protections.

We have to do more regardless, but it’s still all part of the good fight in my book

I wonder what entails “fully protected”. Encryption? What kind? Etc