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I was well on my way to having a forest of RPis. The boxes are cheap, and "they only use 5W"... until you have 10 of them. I replaced each and every one of th
by 8fingerlouie 8y ago
I was well on my way to having a forest of RPis.
The boxes are cheap, and "they only use 5W"... until you have 10 of them.
I replaced each and every one of them with an Intel NUC (6. gen Celeron) running FreeBSD, and created a jail for each of the services the individual RPIs maintained.
It uses 5-9W (Idle), which is like 80% of the time. It has real Gigabit Ethernet, as well as a SATA SSD, and that alone is enough to provide much higher performance (for me)
The only RPis i have left running are the individual nodes in my video/climate surveillance.
- Nashooo 8y agoCould you maybe post some more specs / setup ?
- mlrtime 8y agoProxmox runs beautifully on a Gen 8 Intel Nuc. A lot more than 5-6 raspberry pis but much more powerful.
- tootie 8y agoChick-Fil-A use a small cabinet of NUCs and deploy an arbitrary number of services via Kubernetes to all there restaurants. It's a pretty neat setup. https://medium.com/@cfatechblog/bare-metal-k8s-clustering-at-chick-fil-a-scale-7b0607bd3541 https://medium.com/@cfatechblog/bare-metal-k8s-clustering-at...
- Already__Taken 8y agoI'm sure i've seen this as a talk too, it was pretty humble iirc they seemed surprised how practical it turned out to be.