I don’t like that this was removed, but it is very ironic for a AI summary about AI hype fueling a RAM shortage. It was at least properaly labeled and attributes and an open source model.

Definitely overkill lol. But I like it. Haven’t found a more complete solutions that doesn’t feel like a comp sci dissertation yet.

The goal is pretty simple. Make as much as possible, helm values, k8s manifests, tofu, ansible, cloud init as possible and in that order of preference because as you go up the stack you get more state management for “free”. Stick that in git and test and deploy from that source as much as possible. Everything else is just about getting to there as fast as possible, and keeping the 3-2-1 rule alive and well for it all (3 backups, 2 different media, 1 off-site).

Fleet from Rancher to deploy everything to k8s. Baremetal management with Tinkerbell and Metal3 to management my OS deployments to baremetal in k8s. Harvester is the OS/K8S platform and all of its configs can be delivered in install or as cloudinit k8s objects. Ansible for the switches (as KubeOVN gets better in Harvester default separate hardware might be removed), I’m not brave enough for cross planning that yet. For backups I use velero, and shoot that into the cloud encrypted plus some nodes that I leave offline most of the time except to do backups and updating them. I user hauler manifests and a kube cronjob to grab images, helm charts, rpms, and ISO to local store. I use SOPS to store the secrets I need to boot strap in git. OpenTofu for application configs that are painful in helm. Ansible for everything else.

For total rebuilds I take all of that config and load it into a cloudinit script that I stick on a Rocky or sles iso that, assuming the network is up enough to configure, rebuilds from scratch, then I have a manual step to restore lost data.

That covers everything infra but physical layout in a git repo. Just got a pikvm v4 on order along with a pikvm switch, so hopefully I can get more of the junk on Metal3 for proper power control too and less IPXE shenanigans.

Next steps for me are CI/CD pipelines for deploying a mock version of the lab into Harvester as VMs, running integrations tests, and if it passes merge the staged branch into prod. I do that manually a little already but would really like to automate it. One I do that I start running Renovate to grab the latest stable for stuff for me.

Git lab CI is my goto for git repo based things (unit tests, integration tests, etc). Fleet through Rancher for real deployments (manages and maintains state because kubernetes). Tekton is my in between catchall.

Servo is the one I follow in that space

Hopefully work on opensource firmware getting going like https://github.com/koalazak/dorita980. Seems more movement in the server side though https://github.com/ia74/roomba_rest980

Another option is hardware hacking it https://github.com/meech-ward/roomba/tree/main

Tbh the amount of cameras and microphones we have that upload to external unaudited servers (“the cloud”) is insane to me. This is just further worry about it since the scheme allowed their ownership over our devices and privacy, which means they can also sell that.

Honestly. I think private companies can have a place in public infra, but it’s not in the freaking ownership. Rent seeking is the worst and most destructive aspect of private ownership and we’ve known and can look at countless example of that since Adam Smith!

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Right! Tbh I saw their work after playing with git pods on a project that utilized it. By that point though the git pods project had made significant progress IMHO from the fork of Eclipse

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Another government stops renting key software and instead invests in actuall ownership!

Honestly, if Microsoft said they wanted to own the Autobahn I could only imagine people would tell them to fuck off (in english and deutche). Why would digital infrastructure be any different?

I know a person that swore up and down about it, but personally I didn’t see the appeal. I am biased towards containers though so Harvester is my Promo alternative I’m running

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Worth paying for. Honestly guys selhost for yourself and family contribute to project you depend on, and pay for everything else you don’t have the time to do that too.

Its free as in freedom, not free as in beer. Their still FOSS even so this isn’t even a rug pull imho. The worst thing is it requires an account which hurts the privacy aspect of that. One the few times something like Meta mask actually makes sense… Maybe some way to get an token generated and sent for use rather than a blanket account

https://github.com/gitpod-io

This was the best project I was following in the space

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Does this imply it would be better to pool extra resources for a super node versus those same people beefing up their individual nodes the same amount? At least to some level of dimmishing returns of course