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I won't try to change your mind, but I think you should know that... Debian isn't immutable at all. Everything is writable from the partition table, the kernel, to the C library an…

I'm biased, but I could see Lightwhale play a key role in this setup. You could start small, two nodes with Lightwhale in a Docker Swarm cluster. Run your server in a container. Le…

I'll try and answer all your points: I tried to outline the project features in brief at the start of the page. I'm sorry if I didn't communicate it clearly. Feel free to pinpoint …

I do the opposite: My workstation is where I work, fiddle with things, experiment. It 's a workbench in the context of software development. So I need to be able to modify and conf…

Hi, thanks for taking interested in my project! I assumes you've visited the Lightwhale website and at least read the headlines: "No maintenance headaches. Just boot and focus on w…

Correct, it's only terminal. Lightwhale provides only the bare necessities for you to deploy what you need. So instead of dictating a UI, you're free to choose what you like, be it…

Me too. What do you mean?

Yes, sorry. I don't use the master branch, and Bitbucket doesn't easily let me delete it. But wait, you confirmed that "3.0" isn't there, but somehow missed that "3.0.0" is? =)

I think you're missing the point. Of course you can choose a general purpose Linux dist. But you'll still have to go through the extra work of partitioning the disk, installing the…

I don't have a recommended or official way. But you could look into using `btrfs send` to send the data filesystem subvolume to a backup host, preferably initiated from the backup …

Exactly!

Thanks for letting me know. I really should delete the master branch because I don't use it. This is where the good stuff is: https://bitbucket.org/asklandd/lightwhale/src/3.0.0/

Hello! I went with Btrfs for persistence, and automated some things around that. For example, if you give Lightwhale two magic disks, it will automatically create a Btrfs RAID1. Du…

Lightwhale comes with docker compose too! And docker buildx and git for good measure. This means you can clone your git repo, and docker compose up your stack immediately.

...and then proceed and do the same again, only with a window manager =)

Proxmox is great. I use it for experimenting with Lightwhale swarm clusters locally; I'm currently running 8 Lightwhale worker nodes with 512MB RAM each and no disk, and it's super…

Oh, but it's not a constraint. And it's certainly not a general concept. It's the very purpose of Lightwhale. Lightwhale does one thing and it does it great: It lets you run Docker…

Hello. I'm glad you asked =). So first of all, you don't install it; you just boot it. And because Lightwhale doesn't write anything to disk unless you explicitly tell it to, ( htt…

Yes, it is a single Docker Engine instance. But Lightwhale fully supports Docker Swarm, so you can easily build a lightweight cluster as well.

Hello. There's a balance between "simple as humanly possible" and "usable", where "usable" specifically means "run docker containers". I feel I've hit a sweet-spot, but I'd like to…

https://lightwhale.asklandd.dk/#faq-install

Thanks! I'm only announcing it for home servers because that's where most people are willing to try it out. But Lightwhale is already running in production, and it makes an excelle…

ohai! I've released Lightwhale 3, which is possibly the easiest way to self-host Docker containers. It's a free, immutable Linux system purpose-built to live-boot straight into a w…