Comment on Is it possible to run a docker host that has no harddrive?
catloaf@lemm.ee 4 weeks ago
You could boot over the network and use the NAS for storage, but that’s going to be a lot of work to get running properly, and it’ll be pretty slow too.
Honestly, if you want to run a read-only service from it, it could work, but anything more than a light, immutable host is going to be unpleasant.
Passerby6497@lemmy.world 4 weeks ago
Realistically, I just want to have a system that can act as the hardware end point for a coral processor to do image recognition. I don’t need to write a lot on demand, and what was being written previously was all to the NAS (other than the app’s database)
catloaf@lemm.ee 4 weeks ago
That could work, then! You’d have to set up the boot image or reconfigure it each time (maybe cloud-init and/or ansible), but as a mostly compute node it could work.
Passerby6497@lemmy.world 4 weeks ago
My ideal is something more like a netboot-able image that I can modify/recreate and have it pull on next boot. But those options aren’t a bad thought either. I’d just need to have the bootable image configured with the info needed to bootstrap it. I’ve got another VM that’s got a different automation platform running (Powershell Universal), but it would give me an excuse to learn another well known automation platform.