Raspberry Pi Homelab with Kubernetes

Re:Raspberry Pi Homelab with Kubernetes by huseyinkeles on Wednesday November 11, 2020 @02:42PM (#25062079)

I really tried! But maybe because my setup was a bit demanding, rPi4 couldn't handle it well. (home-assistant, adguard home, nextcloud, plex, *arr apps, and many more on docker)

I just had to switch to a SFF desktop PC with Ubuntu on it and never looked back. For toying around rPis can be fun but in real life applications, they were getting extremely hot. Had to add extra fans etc.

I still use my rPi4s, one of them connected to my 3D printer with Octoprint installed on it, but that's it.

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Re:Raspberry Pi Homelab with Kubernetes by wil421 on Wednesday November 11, 2020 @03:26PM (#25062589)

Why kind of quality did you get running plex? I doubt a cluster of pi’s could keep up with the transcoding.

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Re:Raspberry Pi Homelab with Kubernetes by huseyinkeles on Thursday November 12, 2020 @02:08AM (#25067272)

Very poorly. The cooling is a big problem as well.

Now I switched to x86, I’m even sharing my Plex library with a few more people (looking at the Tautulli stats, it’s been transcoding a lot) without any problems.

If it becomes an issue, I’d add a GPU but for now a 6 core AMD is doing a very good job.

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