John Richard

This is what NameCheap does too. It’s freaking stupid. Domain registrations should not be managed by corporations.

I shit on JavaScript for years… but Deno (built around Rust) is honestly one of the most pleasant tools I’ve used for development, and you get all the completion in VS Code.

I don’t have any friends really 😥 and the unlimited storage with Google Workspace was $25/mo. I think it will cost me about $125/mo. now to get enough pooled storage with Google, but it is doable at least in the short-term. I guess I need to make some friends with fiber connections.

That’s rad… I have a set of Ansible playbooks/roles/collections already for most system-wide settings. I have a love-hate relationship with Ansible though, but it gets the job done. I may try for cloud-init first until I reach its limitations. I’ve gotten pretty good at the Arch install too, although setting up the disks with LUKS was the most challenging part. Fortunately, the few times I’ve broke things I’ve been able to boot the installer ISO and mount my LUKS volumes from memory, but I couldn’t tell you how I set them up in the first place. 🤣 However I do it, I really just want to automate the process so that I can add new nodes and expand should I decide to rent out colocation space someday.

Thanks so much for the very detailed reply. I think at this point I’m conflicted between using TrueNAS or going all in and trying SDS. I’m leaning towards SDS primarily because I want to build experience, but heck maybe I’ll end up doing both and testing it out first and see what clicks.

I’ve setup Gluster before for OpenStack and had a pretty good experience, but at the time the performance was substantially worse than Ceph (however it may have gotten much better). Ceph was really challenging and required a lot of planning when I used it last in a previous role, but it seems like Rook might solve most of that. I don’t really care about rebuild times… I’m fine if it takes a day or two to recover the data as long as I don’t lose any.

As long as I make sure to have an offsite backup/replica somewhere then I guess I can’t go too wrong. Thanks for explaining the various configurations of Gluster. That will be extremely helpful if I decide to go that route, and if performance can be tuned to match Ceph then I probably will.

Thanks. I believe TrueNAS does ZFS as well… maybe by default. If I want to keep it simple this will probably be the route I go.

Thanks. That is what I’m leaning towards. Do you have any suggestions for a particular distro for your K8S nodes? I’m running Arch on my desktop.

The idea of being able to setup different storage classes is very appealing, as well as learning how to build my on K8S cloud.

Thanks. I’ve got Gigabit Fiber so I guess I’ll try Hetzner as a remote backup, or see how much it will cost to upgrade my Google Workspace account since they started enforcing their storage quotas.

I run Windows in a QEMU VM for a few things, but I’d much rather run Windows inside Linux than Linux inside Winblows.

This right here. Using Podman natively on Linux is beautiful.

It does include coreutils and other GNU packages, but they aren’t installed by default. This is perfect for a server install or Docker image where Busybox is just enough to accomplish most basic tasks, but if I was using it for a desktop OS then you better believe I’m installing the GNU wget and other packages so that I can follow redirects and what not.