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.

  • Campers@lemmy.worldOP
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    4 days ago

    Oh… That sounds risky!

    But, with no experience doing it, I may be missing something.

    Have you had no issues with this approach?

    • WhiteOakBayou@lemmy.world
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      4 days ago

      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.