Homelab - Tag - Lorenzo's Bloghttps://www.k8s.it/tags/homelab/Homelab - Tag - Lorenzo's BlogHugo -- gohugo.ioenFri, 19 Feb 2021 00:00:00 +0000Homelab, When Small is Bighttps://www.k8s.it/posts/homelab-when-small-is-big/Fri, 19 Feb 2021 00:00:00 +0000Lorenzo Girardihttps://www.k8s.it/posts/homelab-when-small-is-big/

When I first got into IT, devices ran continuously. My first lab was an impressive tower from 1999 with substantial disk and memory banks, a quality CPU cooled by a massive copper heatsink and a 12cm fan. During the night, those components produced noise comparable to a helicopter. Neighbors complained. I didn’t sleep well.

The lab evolved over the years. Not just for noise reasons, but prioritizing cost-effective hardware that could replicate a simplified production environment. The goals today are very different from 1999:

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Hardware Setup

Here we are — a homemade Kubernetes cluster built on ARM hardware. No cloud credits. No expensive servers. Just OrangePis and a USB hub.

Bill of materials:

  • 1x Anker 60W PowerPort 6 USB hub (power for all nodes)
  • 4x Orange Pi Plus 2E single-board computers

Total cost: well under what a single month of cloud compute would run.

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