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Best usage of motherboard (self.selfhosted)

submitted 1 year ago by Burn1ngBull3t to c/selfhosted

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Hello selfhosted !

I had a thought I’d like to share with you.

I currently have a motherboard that was used to game and that i would like to reuse.

I thought of 2 ways to use it:

as a NAS
as a Steam stream server (i have a graphic card around too)

I also have other computers running Kubernetes (2 nodes)

My question is should i go Kubernetes for this on too, or on another path ?

Thanks

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[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 year ago (2 children)

You could do all of them

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Yeah, if it was a gaming PC it would have no problem doing Nas and steam. I wouldn't bother with kubernetes or docker though. Just use Linux, no need for containers.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Just use Linux, no need for containers.

Depends heavily on the use case. You can't just rule out a full technology without a proper reason/justificiation beyond "Container bad".

[–] vector_zero 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Agreed, for me containers are really nice for playing with new software without dirtying my host install.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Definitely. Just the headache alone of python 3.x here and php version x there and oh boy hope they don't clash is so annoying.

For a simple webhost it makes sense to install bare metal if it doesnt have to scale anyway.
If I need 2 different db versions on the same host for different application stacks it is so easy to just insert a new program.

[–] Burn1ngBull3t 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Would have been cool to add yet another machine to the cluster, especially if i could use the NAS for the kube VolumeClaims. 🤔

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I would definitely still go with containers, running baremetal is less secure, more fiddly and less reproducible

[–] Burn1ngBull3t 3 points 1 year ago

I think you are right indeed, i had the idea to maybe use the GC for AI stuff and play with it. I would probably go with kube and add the NAS in longhorn (that i already set up)

[–] Burn1ngBull3t 1 points 1 year ago

Also true

[–] Willdrick 2 points 1 year ago

With a gpu in the mix, it could be used as an htpc/console and also work as a nas/media server with transcoding.