| >The language itself is unusual and the error messages leave much to be desired. And the split around Flakes just complicates things further Those are my chief complaints as well, actually. I never quite got to the point where I grasped how all the bits fit together. I understand the DSL (though the errors are cryptic as you said) and the flakes seemed recommended by everyone yet felt like an addon that was forgotten about (you needed to turn them on through some experimental flag IIRC?). I'll give it another shot some day, maybe it'll finally make sense. >Oh man, having a 25U rack sounds really fun. I have a moderate size cabinet I keep my server, desktop, a UPS, 10Gig switch, and my little fanless Home Assistant box. What's yours look like? * 2 UPSes (one for networking one for compute + storage) * a JBOD with about 400TB raw in ZFS RAID10 * a little intertech case with a supermicro board running TrueNAS (that connects to the JBOD) * 3 to 6 NUCs depending on the usage, all running Talos, rook-ceph cluster on the NVMEs, all NUCs have a Sonnet Solo 10G Thunderbolt NIC * 10 Gig unifi networking and a UDM Pro * misc other stuff like a zima blade, a pikvm, shelves, fans, ISP modem, etc I'm not necessarily thinking about downsizing but the NUCs have been acting up and I've gotten tired of replacing them or their drives so I thought I'd maybe build a new machine to rule them all in terms of compute and if I only want one host then k8s starts making less sense. Mini PCs are fine if you don't push them to the brim like I do. I'm a professional k8s engineer I guess, so on the software side most of this comes naturally at this point. |