YawnTor

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  • 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.










  • Unless you need the complexities that Kubernetes brings, Docker Swarm is the right tool for the job. It’s low overhead, low maintenance, and doesn’t have external moving parts. I run several swarms for work and personal use and the care and feeding of all of them is minimal and revolves around monthly patching. I also have a Kubernetes cluster at work that the dev teams wanted to experiment with and it’s always running into one problem or another.