I am trying to plan my home lab to satisfy two different needs:

  1. I want a stable environment where I will put a relatively expensive NAS and maybe some other Zima boards.
  2. I also want to try new versions and configurations in an env where I can break stuff BEFORE trying things on my Production environment. I would also like to use that environment to try other things like playing with Kubernetes, Docker, Iceberg, etc. I am a backend software engineer so this is very useful to me. Besides being fun.

So, I am just trying to gather ideas on how to configure this both in terms of software and hardware.

  • slazer2au@lemmy.worldEnglish
    3·
    3 days ago

    I would make a new volume on the nas for testing purposes. Give it enough space to hold some data but no where near enough for your production data.

    • Campers@lemmy.worldOP
      1·
      3 days ago

      That is an interesting proposition. And it is a bit cheaper then buying a second NAS while still possibly catching many issues.

      Have you done this, out of curiosity?