This is pretty rad! Thanks for sharing. I went down the same road with learning k3s on about 7 Raspberry Pis and pivoted over to Proxmox/Ceph on a few old gaming PCs / Ethereum miners. Now I am trying to optimize the space and looking at how to rack mount my ATX machines with GPUs lol… I was able to get a RTX 3070 to fit in a 2U rack mount enclosure but having some heat issues… going to look at 4U cases with better airflow for the RTX 3090 and various RX480s.

I am planning to set up Talos VMs (one per Proxmox host) and bootstrap k8s with Traefik and others. If you’re learning, you might want to start with a batteries-included k8s distro like k3s.

I followed the wiki tutorials for that. Make sure iommu is working, blacklist drivers on host, etc.

It’s on my lift of projects. I build a Proxmox+Ceph cluster and I have GPU passthrough working for LLM inference. I was planning to get docker headless Steam going and try to steam via Steam In Home Streaming as my first attempt then pivot to a full VM with Sunshine as a last resort.

They should have just called it appleOS 26 since they are bumping all of it to 26 and unifying the look and feel between all of their OSs.

I’m really not sure. I’ve heard of people using Ceph across datacenters. Presumably that’s with a fast-ish connection, and it’s like joining separate clusters, so you’d likely need local ceph cluster at each site then replicate between datacenters. Probably not what you’re looking for.

I’ve heard good things about Garbage S3 and that it’s usable across the internet on slow-ish connections. Combined with JuiceFS is what I was looking at using before I landed on Ceph.

I know Ceph would work for this use case, but it’s not a lighthearted choice, kind of an investment and a steep learning curve (at least it was, and still is, for me).

I went and edited my hosts file and added all of my devices, but I only have a handful. Tailscale on macOS has a lot of bugs, this being one of many.

It depends on the container I suppose. There are some that are very difficult to rebuild depending on what’s in it and what it does. Some very complex software can be ran in containers.

I’ve been wanting to tinker with NixOS. I’ve stuck in the stone ages automating VM deployments on my Proxmox cluster using ansible. One line and about 30 minutes (cuda install is a beast) to build a reproducible VM running llama.cpp with llama-swap.

Typically, the container image maintainer will provide environment variables which can override the database connection. This isn’t always the case but usually it’s as simple as updating those and ensuring network access between your containers.

A lot of times it is necessary to build the container oneself, e.g., to fix a bug, satisfy a security requirement, or because the container as-built just isn’t compatible with the environment. So in that case would you contract an expert to rebuild it, host it on a VM, look for a different solution, or something else?

reproducing those installs from scratch + restoring backups would be a single command plus waiting 5 minutes.

Is that with Ansible or your own tooling or something else?

Exactly!

I came up with this idea more than 20 years ago as a way for cars to tell each other about events ahead of them. Imagine if you’re on a two-lane road heading away from an deer and you pass vehicles going the opposite direction. Your car could relay that information to then and have it age out after a few minutes.

Never used them before. Looks like more business oriented. How do they work out?

I guess that depends on the app. I know what you mean by it doesn’t mark the played episode as played, it’s like there’s no offline sync so it’s kind of half baked. I think that’s still wholly on the app side of things (aka the client), as I believe the server side functionality exists.

Both Android and iOS allow this. It depends on the user account settings in Jellyfin and a client that supports it.

Tailscale is a great option for this if your user count is low (1-3).

This is a feature that Jellyfin natively has already. So now Jellyfin exceeds Plex in some areas.