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Redoing home lab and need insights (lemmy.world)
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I recently switched from TrueNAS to Synology for my NAS. TrueNAS had served me well, but I no longer had the time to manage it effectively.

On this occasion, I decided to overhaul my entire home lab, which had gotten pretty messy over the years. As part of this overhaul, I will be discarding my old TrueNAS device due to its high power consumption and bulkiness. I will keep a NUC and another NUC alternative with slightly lower specs, but with 2+ LAN ports.

With this configuration, my plan is to use Proxmox on the NUC as the primary system and use the second NUC as a backup. The backup NUC however ha a dedicated connection via multiple LAN ports directly to the Synology NAS, so that would be ideal to storage intensive tasks.

My primary use case will be running containers and a few VMs for services like Git, Pi hole, backup services and more. Although my Synology NAS supports running containers and VMs, I prefer to keep things separate. I've already taken care of my infrastructure needs and won't be hosting pfSense or similar services.

Since I haven't looked into best practices lately, I'm very interested in learning new technologies like Ansible for automation.

I'm especially interested in understanding how to automate installs and updates while working with containers and VMs. I am considering whether to stay with Proxmox or go for a simpler distribution like Debian, Fedora or others.

Thanks for you insights!

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[-] psmt@lemmy.pcft.eu 2 points 1 year ago

K8s really shines when you start hosting more stuff, even on a single node. I definitely recommend giving k3s a try. I wouldn't recommend it for only a couple of services though.

Is it overkill? Yes, applying docker-compose manually also works. But then you still have to make your reverse proxy, your certificate and all your services work together. You can write Ansible for it, but then you end up with a lot of custom code to maintain and you still don't get all the nice features.

For me the killer feature was flux. Your code, configs and even secrets live in git and get autodeployed and autohealed. And it has other features such as operators to fetch helm charts from other repos and apply your config to it.

[-] green_dot@le.fduck.net 1 points 1 year ago

Thanks for the reply, flux is pretty good, I'm using ArgoCD, but both are basically following gitops priciples.

I might give k3s a look and see how ot all work together.

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