Oh, fully agree. My base spec M1 Air destroys them in anything single-threaded. I got them because I wanted three nodes to play around with various things requiring HA, and I didn't want to just virtualize that. That said, they _are_ virtualized. Every server I have runs Proxmox, with templated VMs built from Packer + Ansible. I'm currently in the process of shifting K8s providers; right now they're running k3os but since Rancher has killed that, it's forever stuck at v1.21, so I'm shifting to Talos. I have the Terraform for them working fine, just need to set up a PXE server so they'll pick up the desired static IP when being created.
> you aren't really gaining anything from ECC ram either
Sibling comment to mine addressed this; to add on, I disagree. Cosmic rays aside, there's a ton of EMI inside a computer, and anything I can do to help prevent data corruption is a win in my book. Torvalds agrees, if that carries any weight with you. [0]
As far as cost, it costs me ~$30-40/month to run in electricity, and some small amount of A/C load (roughly equivalent to 5 extra people existing in the house) [1].
A friend of mine built a k8s system with Raspberry Pis, back when they were cheap and available, which burned very little electricity and produced no detectable heat.
Yep! I have an RPi 4, and at one point it was running Hypriot [0] on it, with some lighter containers being handled by it instead of the larger x86 nodes. I'm pretty sure I also had it running as part of a K8s cluster for a brief time.
Oh, fully agree. My base spec M1 Air destroys them in anything single-threaded. I got them because I wanted three nodes to play around with various things requiring HA, and I didn't want to just virtualize that. That said, they _are_ virtualized. Every server I have runs Proxmox, with templated VMs built from Packer + Ansible. I'm currently in the process of shifting K8s providers; right now they're running k3os but since Rancher has killed that, it's forever stuck at v1.21, so I'm shifting to Talos. I have the Terraform for them working fine, just need to set up a PXE server so they'll pick up the desired static IP when being created.
> you aren't really gaining anything from ECC ram either
Sibling comment to mine addressed this; to add on, I disagree. Cosmic rays aside, there's a ton of EMI inside a computer, and anything I can do to help prevent data corruption is a win in my book. Torvalds agrees, if that carries any weight with you. [0]
As far as cost, it costs me ~$30-40/month to run in electricity, and some small amount of A/C load (roughly equivalent to 5 extra people existing in the house) [1].
[0]: https://www.realworldtech.com/forum/?threadid=198497&curpost...
[1]: https://www.engineeringtoolbox.com/metabolic-heat-persons-d_...