Post

I bit the bullet and finally bought a mini PC for my home lab. This lets me decommission the (10y) old Intel i7-3540 laptop, and double the total capacity of the lab. Proxmox-driven k3s cluster will be the 1st use case.

The home lab backbone remains, though, Ansible+Nomad (for the foreseeable future) because I made it work so well over the years. The mini PC I chose is minisforum UM870 (Ryzen 7 8745H, 64GB DDR5, 1TB 990 Pro) & pretty happy so far