Homelab

Today, I wanted to migrate my single Ceph NFS daemon from my LXD VM on an x86 server to my Hardkernel H3. This did not work out too well. Yesterday, I had finally finished the migration of my Ceph cluster’s MON daemons to my three Raspberry Pi controllers. This move had it’s own problems, which I will detail a bit in another blog entry. Part of this migration was to also move over the MGR daemons to my Pis. This actually worked without any problem - I thought. ...

I am currently working on distributing my Homelab a little bit more. My main driver is high availability. Do I need high availability in a homelab setup? No, not really. But I was getting annoyed by having to take down the entire Homelab whenever I was doing an update on my single server. The newest part of that project is my cluster controller. That is the machine running the servers for my Vault, Consul and Nomad cluster. Before the migration, this was yet another LXD VM on my homeserver. Now, it’s a Raspberry Pi 4 4GB. ...

After finally finishing my series on netbooting Raspberry Pis, the initial trigger for creating this blog, I want to give an overview of what my current Homelab is looking like. In this article, I will provide an overview of the hardware and hosts that I currently have. The next one will be about the stack I’m using, with a bit more detail on my storage solution, Ceph, and my cluster running Nomad, Consul and Vault. The final article will then be an overview of the services I’m running on the cluster. ...