So I have rebuilt my Production rack with very little in terms of an actual software plan.
I host mostly docker contained services (Forgejo, Ghost Blog, OpenWebUI, Outline) and I was previously hosting each one in their own Ubuntu Server VM on Proxmox thus defeating the purpose.
So I was going to run a VM on each of these Thinkcentres that worked as a Kubernetes Cluster and then ran everything on that. But that also feels silly since these PCs are already Clustered through Proxmox 9.
I was thinking about using LXC but part of the point of the Kubernetes cluster was to learn a new skill that might be useful in my career and I don’t know how this will work with Cloudflared Tunnels which is my preferred means of exposing services to the internet.
I’m willing to take a class or follow a whole bunch of “how-to” videos, but I’m a little frazzled on my options. Any suggestions are welcome.
Nice and tidy setup. What specs do the Thinkcenters have? And what rack is that?
Yes OP, show us your rack (details)
Rack shown
This is a 52pi 10 inch rack 8U
I have 4 raspberry Pi4’s 4gb running with POE
Some TP-link gigabit switch with 4/poe ports
3 Thinkcentre Tiny with a ryzen 5 2400GE 32 gigs ddr4 RAM, 512 Sabrent PCIE Gem 4 NVME boot/VM drive, 512 PNY Sata SSDs for databases
I have a bigger server for AI stuff and storage. This is just Tue “production” server for my websites and Git repos
I stole the set up idea from my man Jan Wildeboer
https://jan.wildeboer.net/2025/05/Cute-Homelab/