The 100 Days of Homelab Reference Architecture is intended to demonstrate practical up-cycling of effective and low cost comodity hardware.
Goals:
- Cloud Scale like Infrastructure Modeling
- Upgradeable Hardware to support moderately ambitious workloads
- Reproducible with modest budget and or access to second hand comodity pc(s)
Non-Goals:
- Production Viable Architecture
- System architectures other than x86
- Elimination of all Single Points of Failure
Cluster:
| Flavor | Status |
|---|---|
| Sidero Talos K8s OS | Recommended |
| CentOS Stream 8,9 | Deprecated |
| Fedora 34+ | Deprecated |
| Ubuntu 20.04+ | Deprecated |
- Processor: 4c 8T
- Memory: 16GB DDR3
- Storage: SSD 256GB
- Network:
- 1 x 1Gb Ethernet
- 1 x 10Gb Fiber
| Minimum | Current | Maximum | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Node # | 1 | 3 | 3 or more |
| CPU | 4c/8t | 12c/24t | 12c/24t |
| Memory | 16GB | 48GB | 192GB |
| Storage | 256GB | 768GB | 30TB |
*Primary storage should be SSD or better
**Estimated minimum budget if bying all parts to start should be aprox $400 USD
- Dell Optiplex 7050 SFF (on ebay)
- i7-6700 3.4GHz 4c
- 16GB DDR3 RAM 1600MHz
- 256GB SSD
- 10Gb Networking Gear
| Item | count | ea | total + shipping |
|---|---|---|---|
| Optiplex(es) | 3 | 299.00 | 1,046.66 |
| Network Cards | 3 | 105.03 | 315.09 |
| Network Switch | 1 | 240.89 | 240.89 |
| Power Strip | 1 | 19.99 | 19.99 |
| Network Cable | 3 | 05.03 | 15.09 |
| GRAND TOTAL | 1,637.72 |
* Prices & Links as of 07/24/2021
** CCIO and it's contributors are not sponsored by or affiliated with any of the hardware or vendors referenced