Comment on Do any of you use Raspberry Pi’s ?
Kaldo@kbin.social 9 months ago
I feel old, I don't understand 90% of words in this thread lol.
I just have kodi on Libreelec with a jellyfin plugin on my rpi4 and even that struggled with overheating at times. So I run most stuff on my pc instead. I'm tempted to try the portainer to get some experience with docker tho.
buzz@lemmy.world 9 months ago
Dont even bother with portainer on RPI. Too low powered.
notfromhere@lemmy.one 9 months ago
I have k3s running on my Pi cluster and have dozens of services running on them. USB drives for the lot of them.
buzz@lemmy.world 9 months ago
Could u share some details about your setup? I really want to try kubernettes maybe this is my sign from the universe
notfromhere@lemmy.one 9 months ago
Sure! I’m using ansible to manage the hosts, install k3s, and deploy the manifests. I’m looking at switching to nixos for reproducibility purposes. I have a couple Pi 4’s, and a handful of Pi 3Bs. Each one is booting off USB drives (Pi 4s have SSDs and others have thumb drives). Then I have an old computer I turned into a NAS server that is hosting NFS for the PVs of each pod. Then I have a rackmount gigabit switch, and I set up tailscale on each node, and reference everything by the tailnet names. Works really well and I have complete access while I’m away from home.
Kaldo@kbin.social 9 months ago
Really? I've seen threads with people claiming to run dozens of services on it. What do you recommend instead, just any rpi OS and installing them like I would on regular linux?
buzz@lemmy.world 9 months ago
if you plan on running portainer and then multiple services on your portainer. I honestly would not recommend rpi, and Im sorry its a nice little device but I dont think its very fast.
superuser.com/…/how-does-a-raspberry-pi-4-truly-c…
you can get some tiny SFF pc: www.ebay.com/itm/256201371098 that should have a tiny power consumption but 50x faster than rpi