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Changes… again

I know I made changes in my home server configuration few months ago (you may read about that here), but I really like the idea of High Availability cluster based on Proxmox. In the same time, I’m in love with Archbang, and right now this is my distribution of choice (even, if I was in love with Debian for almost twenty years). In my career I worked with different distros, some Debian-based, mostly red-hat based (company standard after all). I worked with SUSE, Gentoo and many other too, but for years Debian was my preferred system. And right now I may say – Archbang is my preferred Linux distro at this moment of my life 🙂

Going back to the topic – I bought few new toys.

NAS – nothing fancy, but still working:

The Netgear ReadyNAS 314 (RN314) Small / Medium business NAS released in 2013. It is powered by Intel Atom D2701 dual-core @ 2.1 GHz CPU and 2 GB RAM. It has 1 x USB 2.0, 2 x USB 3.0 port(s) that can be used to connect printers and external drives. The ReadyNAS 314 device has 4 x 3.5″ SATA III bay(s) and 2 x Gigabit Ethernet LAN interfaces. And what is really nice, it may host some apps (except latest software version, 6.10.10, which removed this option). So I downgrade software to 6.10.9 and (after some tweaks) I have docker on it (just in case).

Mini PC based on Intel N95

I bought also a mini PC based on Intel CPU Alder Lake-N95, which have 4 cores and 4 threads, 16GB LPDDR5 RAM and 512GB SSD.

I want to have two more mini PCs, as I want to have three nodes HA Proxmox cluster at home 🙂

Ideal future

I future, I want to have dedicated unprivileged LXC contained, which will be launched on one cluster node with Home Assistant in Docker on it. Because I’m using zigbee at home there is no point to have it as HA, if I will not be able to use smart home anyway, as I will not supply all nodes with zigbee dongles.

Except that, I want to have another LXC container, which will host all my web services (again, docker in unprivileged LXC container). This one is already done, but because LXC containers are bounded with node (as they are using the same kernel as host) there is no possibility to do the live migration between hosts. So I’m still thinking about small, dedicated VM for docker, which will be set as HA and can be migrated between nodes in cluster without any issues (and that’s why I wanted to have NAS, as a network storage). But here I’m still thinking, as my things are not that critical and 10s of downtime will not kill anyone 🙂 And LXC is faster and uses less resources after all.

Then another LXC container with Archbang, as my daily PC. And probably another few LXC containers for different solutions (AdGuard, Jellyfin, etc). In fact, I may migrate almost everything what I have in docker right now into LXC containers. I’m just not sure if I want