I am trying to plan my home lab to satisfy two different needs:
- I want a stable environment where I will put a relatively expensive NAS and maybe some other Zima boards.
- 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.
Identical or very similar set up for production and testing. Testing doubles as on site back up for me.
Oh… That sounds risky!
But, with no experience doing it, I may be missing something.
Have you had no issues with this approach?
No issues and it’s something I’ve done for a long time but it is adding extra overhead for a problem that using docker has largely solved for me re stable environments.