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My Cute Homelab
As I experiment a lot with open source solutions, I am always in need of a bit of compute power to run stuff on. Nowadays, with containers and automation through CI/CD, that has become a lot simpler compared to, say, 5-10 years ago. You just need a few simple, but powerful enough machines, a bit of networking and you can play around. So. Let me explain my current homelab setup.
Granted, you don’t get the newest and shiniest experimental stuff, but let’s be honest, I want my servers to JustWork™ in a GoodEnough™ way, and this setup does exactly that since quite some time for me :) At the bottom of my homelab is a ThinkCentre M900 Tiny (10FLS4W900) with 4x Intel(R) Core(TM) i5-6500T CPU @ 2.50GHz, 1x 8GB DDR4-2133, 256GB SAMSUNG MZ7TY256HDHP-000L7 which will soon be updated with more RAM and a NVME m2 SSD. €90,00 Description1TB NVME m2 SSD256GB SATA SSD2x 16GB SoDIMM2x 50cm network patch cableScrews and blocks for rack mount I will soon add a third ThinkCentre Tiny to the rack which I plan to use for some experiments with running an air-gapped CA (Certification Authority) as part of my idea on creating a cooperatively owned CA, which I call nerdcert, but that’s a story for another blog post.
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