Ever since the new, more powerful
octavo
replaced the good old
lexicon
server as the single-node Kubernetes cluster to serve all the local self-hosting needs,
the latter has not found any use. Since it would be a waste to let it sit in a box
unused, it will be setup to join the (for now) single-node cluster that is octavo to
enable Zero Downtime Maintenance.
Need. More. Server. Need. More. POWER!!!
Just a bit more, maybe quite a bit more, to run services that are more CPU-intensive than those already running in the current Single-node Kubernetes cluster on an Intel NUC: lexicon.
Need. More. Server. Need. More. POWER!!!
But only a little bit, maybe just enough to run a Minecraft server, which refuses to start on my Raspberry Pi 4 because it has only a meagre 2 GB of RAM.
I had known about Intel NUC tiny PCs for a while, and how handy they can be to have a dedicated physical PC for experimentation. There was a very real possibility that I would have to set one up as a light gaming PC in the near future, so I thought cutting my teeth on a simpler server setup would be a good way to get acquainted with this hardware platform and its Linux support.