homelab init: researching options
- collect your own hardware
- use cloud for everything
- simulate hardware with virtualisation
- simulate hardware with containerization
My personal requirements:
- Be able to emulate Kubernetes from scratch prod, dev, inf clusters
- Be able to test backend enterprise API development
- Be able to run OpenPBS
- Be able to emulate our Ansible cluster deployment automations
- Integrate with GitHub Actions with “custom runner”
- Only simulated systems are required
- I do not need a lot of GPU capacity in cluster or batch
Questions:
- Is my laptop good enough?
- What are my requirements?
- Do I need to emulate ML model jobs at home? In k8s? In batch?