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RAM and Recklessness: Control Plane on SmartNICs

13 Mar 2026 6 min read RAM and Recklessness

Part 4 of Building a Diskless Datacenter Running Kubernetes control plane nodes on NVIDIA BlueField-2 DPUs sounded elegant in theory: dedicated hardware for etcd, isolated from workload noise, surviving host reboots. In practice,

RAM and Recklessness: Burn the Disks

13 Mar 2026 5 min read RAM and Recklessness

Part 3 of Building a Diskless Datacenter The whole point of this project was to run servers without local disks. No SSDs to fail, no RAID to rebuild, no state to migrate. Just

RAM and Recklessness: The Network Nobody Asked For

13 Mar 2026 4 min read RAM and Recklessness

Part 2 of Building a Diskless Datacenter When you have three servers with DPUs, a 100G switch, and a routing addiction, you don't build a flat network. You build something with

RAM and Recklessness: Three Servers and a Dream

13 Mar 2026 3 min read RAM and Recklessness

Part 1 of Building a Diskless Datacenter Most homelabs start with a Raspberry Pi or a refurbished Dell Optiplex. Mine started with three rack-mount servers, three NVIDIA BlueField-2 SmartNICs, and a vague notion