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submitted 1 day ago by Campers@lemmy.world to c/selfhost@lemmy.ml

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.

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That will have a host of other issues that is not super fluid to work with while trying to maintain similar environments. Most notably the networking.

[-] killeronthecorner@lemmy.world 1 points 1 day ago

If this causes networking issues, your setup is already too complicated to manage through a flat set of docker containers. That's not a bad thing, this just isn't the horse for that course so to speak.

Not causing network issues, but for a layman that isn't familiar with managing multiple environments already, controlling a multi-env containerized environment is going to be a nightmare if solely just using containers as a staging environment. It doesn't map to what his prod env (non-container) would be, and it's not going to catch problems which would arise from his prod environment anyway if looking at from an integration standpoint.

[-] killeronthecorner@lemmy.world 1 points 1 day ago

I feel like that's a lot of assumptions based on OP's brief, but I don't disagree with anything you said.

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