beerclue @ beerclue @lemmy.world

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This was my starting up machine. Of course, an nvme makes sense, especially running windows on it. I went for Proxmox, and now I have 4 different machines, a cluster of 3 similar sffs, and a chunkier boi with an i7, 64gb ram and a quadro gpu. This one was the most expensive, around 250€.

Beware, this is how it starts. From a single machine in my office, I went to a mini Datacenter in my cellar, with 4 "servers" (micro-pcs), two Nas devices, a raspberry pi cluster, a dell wyse cluster, new switches and access points, and so much more :))

you can get away with half that. i run my setup (similar to what you wrote) on a dell micro sff with an i5 6500t and 16gb ram that i paid 90€ for. not the snappiest, but works just fine.

I don't use any GUI... I use terraform in the terminal or via CI/CD. There is an API and also a Terraform provider for Proxmox, and I can use that, together with Ansible and shell scripts to manage VMs, but I was looking for k8s support.

Again, it works fine for small environments, with a bit of manual work and human intervention, but for larger ones, I need a bit more. I moved away from a few VMs acting as k8s nodes, to k8s as a service (at work).

I do the same in Proxmox VMs, in my homelab, which is... fine. I was talking more about native support, manageable via an API or something.

Say I need to increase the number of nodes in my cluster. I spin up a new VM using the template I have, adjust the network configuration, update the packages, add it to the cluster. Oh, maybe I should also do an update on all of them while I'm there, because now the new machine runs a different docker version. I have some Ansible and bash scripts that automates most of this. It works for my homelab.

At work however, I have a handful of clusters, with dozens of nodes. The method above can become tedious fast and it's prone to human errors. We use external Kubernetes as a service platforms (think DOKS, EKS, etc), who have Terraform providers available. So I open my Terraform config and increase the number of nodes in one of my pre-production clusters from 9 to 11. I also change the version from 1.32 to 1.33. I then push my changes to a new merge request, my Gitlab CI spins up, who calls Atlantis to run a terraform plan, I check the results and ask it to apply. It takes 2 minutes. I would love to see this work with Proxmox.

Man, I've been living and working in Germany for close to 10 years now. Proxmox is like that 50yo colleague of mine. Hard worker, reliable, really knowledgeable, a treasure trove of info, but he can't be budged. He insists on installing any new VM using the GUI (both Windows and Linux), he avoids learning "new things" like Docker or Kubernetes, and really distrusts "the cloud".

I will keep using Proxmox, as I have for many years both at work and at home, but we are migrating from a VM (with Docker) setup to Kubernetes. It would have been great for Proxmox to offer some support there, but...

This is Fairphone's website. I'm not that anal about it, doesn't bother me too much, but I did see it on several websites, and I'm just confused...

You are right, it is a region switcher. I didn't realize that, maybe because the "change region" button was in a language I didn't know? :)

I see what you mean, interesting. Didn't really look at NixOS as a server os. I personally prefer using multiple compose files (in the process of migrating to k8s). I share resources too, like in your example, I just point to the existing DB instance, not create a new one for each new service.

May I ask what you mean by NixOS support? There's a docker compose you could use in their repo...

I believe R-- stands for Readarr and G--R-- stands for GoodReads.

Not really, you can get a 26tb (new) for 340€... Best €/TB would be a 12tb (refurbished) for 120€.

https://diskprices.com/?locale=de&condition=new%2Cused&capacity=12-26&disk_types=internal_hdd

Oh damn, they're expensive! Good find indeed!

No, not really. Got it earlier today from the butcher, pan fried for a bit before simmering it in the curry, it was pretty tender.

I wrote the ingredient list in the original post...

Probably because that's not the case, native Linux builds don't run the Windows version through proton, unless specifically told to. (As I discovered after asking the initial question)

Hosted with Jellyfin, for clients I use Symfonium on Android and Feishin on desktop.

Yup, just tested it with rimworld. Thanks!

It doesn't, as far as I could tell. I enabled the global option, and now I can just install and run windows only games without having to manually force the compatibility layer. Meanwhile, the Linux native games work just as intended.

I know, I was asking about which version will Steam decide for when I have the global setting on.

So if I turn on the global setting, does it mean it will run native linux games with proton as well? I'm mostly playing rimworld and project zomboid, which have native Linux builds.