There’s a shortage of Raspberry Pi, that’s not news, it’s been a while and people are selling the ones they have at crazy prices. Since I’m not really willing to spend ~150โฌ for a Pi which usually costs less than half, I’ve decided to go for a real pc, small in dimensions though, or at least what I was thinking…
I’ve got another deal on a second-hand computer, a Lenovo ThinkCentre E73. It’s really a nice one, with an i5 and the possibility to change the CPU because it is not bolted on the motherboard.
I present you proxmox01, at least what will it be of it ๐it came with a 500GB HDD, really not too bad for the price.I was able to get my hands on another one exactly like it to build my proxmox cluster, but it doesn’t really fit properly into the rack. I guess I’ll settle down with this one for the moment.pleased to see that it was not a BGA socket, but an LGA one, which means that I can change the CPU to upgrade it. Not too much of a vast choice due to the compatibilities, but still better than nothing. Also, I believe it’s time to change the thermal paste…I burned the image on a USB dongle, stick it into it, then realised that the CPU wasn’t supporting the virtualization, started to cry but…… it was just a matter of enabling it in the BIOS, lucky me!there it is, ready to be installed.here’s the web GUI, in all its glory while serving a local Kubernetes cluster and a PiHole ๐
So now, the only thing left is to find the time to experiment with my local dev Kubernetes cluster, and add a bunch of extra VMs and tools to it. Any ideas on what should I work next?
