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A rough overview of my plan for trialing tinkerbell in my Homelab. This is part 1 of my tinkerbell series. I’m planning to trial tinkerbell in my Homelab to improve my baremetal provisioning setup. This first post will be the plan and the reason why I’m doing this. Tinkerbell is a system for provisioning baremetal machines. It is deployed into a Kubernetes cluster and consists of a controller, a DHCP/netboot server, a metadata provider e.g. for cloud-init data, and an in-memory OS for running workflows. The basic idea is that new machines netboot into that in-memory OS and execute workflows configured in tinkerbell to install the actual OS. ...

I’m currently planning to switch my Homelab to a cluster of eight Raspberry Pi CM4 modules with two Turing Pi 2 boards. That means a full switch to the aarch64/ARM processor architecture. But not all software supports aarch64 yet. So I went looking for a small x86 machine which doesn’t cost too much, doesn’t take too much space, and doesn’t consume too much power. What I found was the Udoo x86 II Ultra. Here are the base specs: ...