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What's your experiences with Debian and Rocky as a homeserver OS? (external-content.duckduckgo.com)

submitted 10 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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Hello there lemmings! Finally I have taken up the courage to buy a low power mini PC to be my first homeserver (Ryzen 5500U, 16GB RAM, 512 SSD, already have 6TB external HDD tho). I have basically no tangible experience with Debian or Fedora-based system, since my daily drivers are Arch-based (although I'm planning to switch my laptop over to Fedora).

What's your experiences with Debian and Rocky as a homeserver OS?

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[–] [email protected] 4 points 10 months ago (1 children)

I have a home lab consisting of 9 mini PCs running Docker Swarm. They're from various manufacturers, Intel, ASRock, Minisforum, etc. I originally tried to use Debian to build out the environment but it couldn't find the network interfaces, or storage, or whatever else. So I made a Rocky 9 install drive and tried that. Every machine came up with all hardware recognized on the first try. So, that's what I've been running for just about two years now. No complaints.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Good to hear that. How many containers do you run if you need 9 mini PCs for those?

[–] [email protected] 3 points 10 months ago

I use three systems for manager nodes so they don't get much work. Mostly Traefik and a few other administrative services. I have about 80 containers running on the six worker nodes.