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I still use docker-compose and have a k3s cluster running, but I really like the simplicity of deploying via git.
Cloud-init for my core setups is here: https://github.com/piku/cloud-init
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From what I saw, both Intel and AMD are trying to adopt hybrid CPUs that hopefully have a power consumption curve closer to M1 systems. So I hope that this improves in the future.
That's great, but from an ecological perspective, repurposing second-hand hardware will always have more benefits than producing new "green" hardware, as most of the energy spent across the lifecycle of a computer happens during production. Buying a raspberry pi for selfhosting is certainly not greener than repurposing your old desktop/laptop. Although i have to admit the economic incentives are skewed due to foundri…
Edit: just realized the 70W figure is in a sibling thread, not a (grand)parent, but I'm still interested regardless!
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I briefly ran a home server on desktop grade hardware. Ryzen 5 with 2 hard drives. The thing was pulling a constant 70w while basically idle. Insanely inefficient compared to adding an extra user to an existing app/service.
That sounds quite bad for "doing nothing", modern desktop class hardware can do quite a bit better than that.
If a €1200 built-from-parts desktop from March 2020 counts as modern desktop class hardware... this system uses 85W idle. It has an AMD CPU+GPU, is Intel and/or Nvidia any better in this regard or are you talking about more low-end hardware?
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easy ? Is this sarcasm?
I think just the typical evaluation of someone with expertise in doing something, it's easy if you're a real devops kind, then just put together a bunch of things, do some config files, write a make or two, take two or three hours to do something that the rest of use take a week to do. in the same way that I might set up a service to scrape XML files and fill up my ElasticSearch search instance, and take a couple hou…
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That sounds quite bad for "doing nothing", modern desktop class hardware can do quite a bit better than that.
> modern desktop class hardware can do quite a bit better than [70W idle] If a €1200 built-from-parts desktop from March 2020 counts as modern desktop class hardware... this system uses 85W idle. It has an AMD CPU+GPU, is Intel and/or Nvidia any better in this regard or are you talking about more low-end hardware?
EDIT: e.g. for an optimized system with Ryzen 9 5950X and RTX 2070 Super apparently 40 W is doable for "sitting idly on Windows Desktop" according to reputable tests. Lower-class hardware can do less.
1). On HOWTO articles about infra (1/2): I'd like to see more articles that lead with requirements, rather than setups that then justify the setup with requirements. Like, congrats, you managed to host a bunch of web applications via containers on a dedicated server. It's really nice for a super personal project and I'm sure it helped OP gain a lot of operational experience across several domains, but I just find this type of article to be "DYI porn" for a highly specific subset of DYI.
2). On HOWTO articles about infra (2/2): Is there any sort of comprehensive infra setup guide out there? Even something that just covers "core" AWS services (CloudFront, EC2, ELB, ECS, Lambda, CloudWatch, CloudTrail, and a few others...) feels like it would be incredibly useful for so many people.
3). "AWS on Rails" - I feel like we're getting close to a time when "AWS on Rails" emerges and we see the birth of a new opinionated tool that says "Most people just want to ship their product, not fiddle with cloud infra. Do it our way and you can focus on product instead of infra"
Three independent, but somewhat related thoughts on this topic: 1). On HOWTO articles about infra (1/2): I'd like to see more articles that lead with requirements, rather than setups that then justify the setup with requirements. Like, congrats, you managed to host a bunch of web applications via containers on a dedicated server. It's really nice for a super personal project and I'm sure it helped OP gain a lot of op…
This would be the AWS certification at their different levels.
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Out of interest, what is the email server? Your server's EHLO wasn't very revealing.
It's an old thing that I should probably not mention for opsec reasons since, honestly, it probably can get pwned (I would be surprised if no intelligence agency has a 0-day for it), and I keep thinking I should switch to linux-based solutions, but it just never floats to the top of my todo list. It's also a fairly big operation since I'd have to coordinate the switchover with some people and I have no idea how to go…
Three independent, but somewhat related thoughts on this topic: 1). On HOWTO articles about infra (1/2): I'd like to see more articles that lead with requirements, rather than setups that then justify the setup with requirements. Like, congrats, you managed to host a bunch of web applications via containers on a dedicated server. It's really nice for a super personal project and I'm sure it helped OP gain a lot of op…
> Is there any sort of comprehensive infra setup guide out there? This would be the AWS certification at their different levels.
To take a personal example, we use multiple infra providers.
Some of our infra is gmail (currently working on automating it with terraform).
Some of it is other infrastructure providers that aren't US-based.
etc.