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,
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
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
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