Justin

Ah, ok I see.

only need dedup if your data is duplicated

Nope, you don’t need any VPS to use it, it comes with an SFTP interface.

https://www.hetzner.com/storage/storage-box/

offsite backup for $2/TB and no download fees, 1/3rd the price of B2.

Hetzner storage box is super cheap and works with rclone. They have a web interface for configuring regular zfs snapshots too so you don’t have to worry about accidental deletions/ransomware.

Hardware-wise:

• Reorganize my networking closet and rack up my switches
• Replace my core switch with 10 gbit, connect up 10Gbit fiber to my laptop dock and one of my nodes still on copper
• Add 3 more nodes to my cluster with nvme storage so that I can start an erasure-coding pool in ceph.

Software wise, too many projects to count lol

Renovate is a very useful tool for automatically updating containers. It just watches a git repo and automatically updates stuff.

I have it configured to automatically deploy minor updates, and for bigger updates, it opens a pull request and sends me an email.

https://docs.renovatebot.com/

https://codeberg.org/jlh/h5b/pulls/53

Yeah full VMs are pretty old school, there are a lot more management options and automation available with containers. Not to mention the compute overhead.

Red Hat doesn’t even recommend businesses to use VMs anymore, and they offer a virtualization tool that runs the VMs inside a container for legacy apps. Its called Openshift Virtualization.

Yeah unraid is the same, it just adds a Gui to make it easier to learn. The downside is that unraid is very non-standard and is basically impossible to back up or manage in source control like vanilla docker or kubernetes

You should keep your docker/kubernetes configuration saved in git, and then have something like rclone take daily backups of all your data to something like a hetzner storage box. That is the setup I have.

My entire kubernetes configuration: https://codeberg.org/jlh/h5b/src/branch/main/argo/custom_applications

My backup cronjob: https://codeberg.org/jlh/h5b/src/branch/main/argo/custom_applications/backups/rclone-velero.yaml

With something like this, your entire setup could crash and burn, and you would still have everything you need to restore safely stored offsite.