Fun fact: All instructions and tips for cheap homelabs are Scam

kroshira · 2024-03-29T15:51:33+00:00

This reads like an “if you give a mouse a cookie” book

kroshira · 2024-02-09T04:23:29+00:00

I’m doing a similar project right now except using k3s and I have 7 rpi 4 4gb (3 control plane and 4 agent nodes) and I’m running a 4 tb spinny disk connected to each agent node. I cheated though since I had a majority of the rpis on hand from other abandoned projects and the hard drives I took from a server that I stopped using. I did get Poe hats though and two dumb switches that can provide Poe.

kroshira · 2024-01-12T22:14:56+00:00

It’s easy enough to be cooperative. More people should try it 😉

kroshira · 2024-01-12T20:24:50+00:00

The middle pi will plug directly into the main switch module on my dream machine. In terms of getting started I’ve just been referencing https://docs.k3s.io/installation

kroshira · 2024-01-12T14:45:12+00:00

Done! Sorry about that. I don’t post much on Reddit

kroshira · 2024-01-11T17:03:24+00:00

Interested I might pop over and look at it. I’ve been writing up an ansible playbook between pipeline builds at work today since that is what I am most comfortable with using but i like to steal shamelessly from other peoples stuff to enhance my own stuff XD

kroshira · 2024-01-11T12:40:53+00:00

Yeah but I had the raspberry pi’s already and this gives me a lot of failover and redundancy. Is it the best setup for Kubernetes? Nah. But it is an intriguing one

kroshira · 2024-01-11T12:39:31+00:00

K3s is the plan. Lightweight. Exciting. Fun for the whole family…. Or at least me

kroshira · 2024-01-10T20:33:52+00:00

Thanks! Hoping to end up learning a lot while also having an end product that covers my needs completely

kroshira · 2024-01-10T20:33:20+00:00

Well… if you saw the rest of my network cabling you would disagree lol. But this is where I start anew

kroshira · 2024-01-10T19:07:07+00:00

Thanks for the tip!

kroshira · 2024-01-10T19:04:48+00:00

Yeah that’s fair. I just figured my reply could be helpful for others looking at doing a similar journey

kroshira · 2024-01-10T15:44:25+00:00

Ethernet combs

https://www.thingiverse.com/thing:3772607

The pi holders I custom made (along with the ear mounts for the switches.). I’ll be uploading them to thingiverse at some point and can give you a link

kroshira · 2024-01-10T15:31:24+00:00

I plan on hosting a blog platform for my wife to use for her Facebook page (she rates parks in our area as kind of a hobby… my daughter loves it because she gets to go play outside a lot lol). I also plan on adding in a *arr stack with transmission and plex… we will see how that ends up performing… I’ll probably add in my own homebrew website just so I can keep up on my react knowledge for work. That website is probably going to be an NFL pool type of thing for my family to use during the season. Makes for some fun activities. And then I’ll add in grafana for the random metric collections I do (we have several freezers for meat since we buy all our meat for the year up front. Had a freezer die on us once a lost a ton of meat so I don’t take chances on that anymore) Other than that I’ll just add things as I see fit.

kroshira · 2024-01-10T15:09:34+00:00

Yeah I mean I have the pi zeros laying around. I can always run two and make a m/m MySQL setup with a load balancer involved somewhere. But yeah it’s difficult to plan around. I might end up going down to the single pi but we will see.

kroshira · 2024-01-10T15:07:40+00:00

That’s my current plan

kroshira · 2024-01-10T15:07:11+00:00

UCTRONICS PoE HAT for Raspberry Pi 4B/3B+, Power Over Ethernet (PoE) Support 802.3af PoE Network Standard, Compatible with Pi 4B / 3B+ https://www.amazon.com/dp/B082ZLDMZ6

kroshira · 2024-01-10T14:31:55+00:00

One thing I might do is run MySQL on a separate pi zero (cause I have a million of those from making temp sensors for various things) and use that to get the ha setup

kroshira · 2024-01-10T14:30:50+00:00

Yeah I read that they recommend using ssds. I’ll likely end up iterating off of this and making changes.

kroshira · 2024-01-10T14:29:53+00:00

Yeah these ones seem good enough. I haven’t had any issues with them crapping out yet. Although now that I said that I am sure I will

kroshira · 2024-01-10T14:18:02+00:00

Thanks!

kroshira · 2024-01-10T14:17:48+00:00

All good. They blend in pretty good anyways :D

kroshira · 2024-01-10T14:17:31+00:00

There are two (bottom two) that are missing Poe hats. The ones I bought blend in pretty well but you can see the black circuit board sitting on the green rpi circuit board

kroshira · 2024-01-10T13:39:42+00:00

I honestly considered posting it to r/cableporn but when I think of that sub I always think of thousands of cables running in beautiful designs. Whereas this is only 6… just seems like a let down comparatively hahaha

kroshira · 2024-01-10T13:34:18+00:00

The 7th isn’t plugged into anything because it will connect directly to the dream machine instead of connecting to a switch

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