Turingpi2

Wherein I update my Turing Pi 2 boards to a new firmware. During the migration of my Homelab to a fleet of Raspberry Pi 4, I bought two Turing Pi 2 boards and put eight Raspberry Pi CM4 8GB into them. You can read more about my setup here. The board has a nice Board Management Controller (BMC). It is an Allwinner SoC with 128 MB of RAM and 128 MB of flash for the OS. It’s running an embedded Linux distribution. This BMC implements a few interesting features: ...

In my previous post on the hardware I am using, I mentioned that I don’t like my large Arch Linux x86 server very much. Here, I will be going into the details of the problem I am having and how I solved it. The problem So until not very long ago at all, I only had a single server, with everything running in a couple of Docker containers. Then COVID came, and I decided that extending my homelab would be the perfect hobby for these lockdown times. So I went and bought a beefier server with an Intel 10th Gen CPU and 96 GB of RAM. Then I found LXD and started introducing VMs. I also discovered Ceph and started using it as my storage layer. ...