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I Bought an N100 Mini PC, Then Another
Exploring the capabilities of the Intel N100 Mini PC for work and self-hosting as an alternative to public cloud.
I created a tool named Slicer to quickly provision and manage microVMs - they can be permanent pets with a disk image, or backed by a storage snapshot for a near-instant boot. Sometimes cloud instances could provide a substitute, however they rarely support KVM, and we are penalised for needing large amounts of vCPU or RAM for workloads, in a way that we're not with mini PCs or self-built ATX towers. When I wanted to test the mirroring of container images for OpenFaaS, I created a new VM, connected with SSH, and installed a registry, Caddy, and Inlets - then let it obtain a TLS certificate.
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