Clusters become personal (like PCs did)
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Clusters become personal (like PCs did)
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Re: Clusters become personal (like PCs did)
#2The article assumes there are people who want clusters. But a single Linux VM in the cloud can scale pretty far. Separate VM's for different apps works well for isolation. Why do I need a cluster?
Re: Clusters become personal (like PCs did)
#3Wouldn’t it be cheaper / less complex to scale vertically (eg a large workstation or medium size bare metal server) instead of using clusters? My understanding is that clusters are primarily useful when you want to share a resource from a pool across unpredictable usage, which becomes a moot point once the cluster is personal.
Re: Clusters become personal (like PCs did)
#4The article assumes there are people who want clusters. But a single Linux VM in the cloud can scale pretty far. Separate VM's for different apps works well for isolation. Why do I need a cluster?
Yeah I’ve been doing this with tailscale and a single vps and it’s been wonderful. Unless you’re planning to have millions of users I don’t think there’s any reason to have a cluster.
Maybe they’re assuming some massive amount of compute will be necessary for future tasks? Self hosted LLMs? I’m currently finding it difficult to come up with more uses for my vps beyond hosting trillium and some personal applications I’ve made
Re: Clusters become personal (like PCs did)
#5The article assumes there are people who want clusters. But a single Linux VM in the cloud can scale pretty far. Separate VM's for different apps works well for isolation. Why do I need a cluster?
Never understood the appeal of Kubernetes to developers, outside of a massive deployments. Always felt like a poor man's Linux for those that insist on using apple or windows desktop.
Re: Clusters become personal (like PCs did)
#6I have an irrational soft spot for Apache Mesos. I loved the separation of the resource management from the scheduling. Note to self: do not rabbit hole on this. Hm. Maybe mesos is the manager for my agent sandboxes. No! Bad lowbloodsugar!
Re: Clusters become personal (like PCs did)
#7I’m not sure quite what this is trying to say. My laptop is already a personal cluster — it has 16 cores, lots of storage, a fast network, I run VMs on it. It’s been the case for a long time that you can run bursty jobs in the cloud if you need more power for a brief period than whatever is currently locally affordable. That’s kind of what the cloud is for, really. So what’s new?
Re: Clusters become personal (like PCs did)
#8No idea about ClusterOS, but I would recommend IncusOS if you're looking for a nice clustering solution. Incus has become indispensable in my homelab over the past few months. It's what I put on my bare metal machines and then spin up Talos Linux VMs for day job practice.
Re: Clusters become personal (like PCs did)
#9The best part of this article is in the footnotes:
> see CEO of Tailscale apenwarr's vibe-researched thread
“Vibe-research” is now a core part of my vocabulary.
Re: Clusters become personal (like PCs did)
#10I don't see how an operating system can work for a cluster.
You can have more than one CPU and more than one storage connected to one mainboard and that works because the interconnect fabric is very fast.
We don't have have the possibility to connect different computers at the same kind of speed that would let them work together seamlessly.