I am trying to plan my home lab to satisfy two different needs:

  1. I want a stable environment where I will put a relatively expensive NAS and maybe some other Zima boards.
  2. I also want to try new versions and configurations in an env where I can break stuff BEFORE trying things on my Production environment. I would also like to use that environment to try other things like playing with Kubernetes, Docker, Iceberg, etc. I am a backend software engineer so this is very useful to me. Besides being fun.

So, I am just trying to gather ideas on how to configure this both in terms of software and hardware.

  • Onno (VK6FLAB)@lemmy.radio
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    11 days ago

    Depends entirely on what “Production” means. In a corporate environment it means something completely different from a homelab

    If you’re doing this for real, you’d have two identical environments.

    If it’s playing with Docker or Kubernetes, you don’t need anything more than a VM with Linux and Docker.

    If you want to get serious, you can also set up a sandbox on EC2.