How I use my Raspberry Pis to help me work on with my side projects

Re:How I use my Raspberry Pis to help me work on with my sid... by 8fingerlouie on Friday January 18, 2019 @04:09AM (#18938031)

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.

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Re:How I use my Raspberry Pis to help me work on with my sid... by tootie on Friday January 18, 2019 @09:03AM (#18939327)

Chick-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...

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Re:How I use my Raspberry Pis to help me work on with my sid... by Already__Taken on Friday January 18, 2019 @10:09AM (#18939773)

I'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.

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Re:How I use my Raspberry Pis to help me work on with my sid... by mlrtime on Friday January 18, 2019 @08:37AM (#18939164)

Proxmox runs beautifully on a Gen 8 Intel Nuc. A lot more than 5-6 raspberry pis but much more powerful.

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Re:How I use my Raspberry Pis to help me work on with my sid... by Nashooo on Friday January 18, 2019 @04:32AM (#18938127)

Could you maybe post some more specs / setup ?

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