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