So I had a micro PC that was running one of my core services and it only supports NVMe drives. Unfortunately, this little guy cooked itself and I’m not in a position to replace the drive. The system is still good and is fairly powerful, so I want to be able to reuse it.

I’m thinking I want to set up some kind of netboot appliance on another server to be able to allow me to boot the system without ever having a local disk. One thing I want to is run some docker images (specifically Frigate) but i wont be able to write anything to persistent storage locally. NFS shares are common in my setup.

Is it even possible to make a ‘gold image’ of a docker host and have it netboot? I expect that memory limitations (16GB) will be my main issue, but I’m just trying to think of how to bring this system back into use. I have two NAS appliances that I can use for backend long term storage (where I keep my docker files and non-database files anyway), so it shouldn’t be too difficult to have some kind of easily editable storage solution. I don’t want to use USB drives as persistent storage due to lifespan concerns from using them in production environments.

  • mlaga97@lemmy.mlaga97.spaceEnglish
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    2 days ago

    I’ve done something extremely similar with a custom NixOS iso for my docker VMs to make versioning and backups easier (golden image live disk with SSH+Docker+Dockge shared between all VMs + local persistent storage specific to each VM).

    You can configure frigate via OCI container with custom config, as well as NFS mounts, SSH server, etc and then have a read-only live disk that boots up, mounts NFS share, and then starts up frigate.