[whalesalad]

I have a few boxes at home in a lab setup (accessible externally via VPN) that I use for these sorts of things. The less crap running on my Mac the better.

That being said - when you have a handful of clients who are all running in Docker compose… it’s nice to say “down” on one, “up” on another as though I’m switching git branches.

Working on transitioning to kube so I can IaaC a lot of it - but it’s nice to have my local machine freed up.

[bluehatbrit]

A slight tangent, but what kind of hardware are you using for this kind of home lab setup?

[whalesalad]

I have 2x Dell R720's and a consumer-grade i7-3770k box, some shiny ubiquity gear mixed with ugly network gear, and a Synology DS918+ for personal storage.

I tend to lean on straight up Debian linux for most things. One of the R720's is a VMWare ESXi host, the other is a k0s box running on Debian Buster, and the 3770k runs Fedora because I wanted to taste the redhat/dnf fruit but I am diehard Debian.

Pic: https://s3.whalesalad.com/misc/rack.jpg (super messy, in dire need of a cleanup)

[rcstank]

I've seen that book case before. Is it IKEA?

[whalesalad]

Yep. https://www.ikea.com/us/en/p/hejne-shelf-unit-softwood-s7903...