Current Setup⌗

The current setup supporting Ceres, is a 2U server, a bit of an exotic one in the current age. The Sun Microsystems Sun Fire T2000. Its a cute system, running an UltraSPARC T1 processor (codenamed Niagra) with 64GB of DDR2 ECC buffered RAM. I fitted it with solid state drives in all of its drive bays as well (for some reason, they don’t actually report SMART data, so the chassis thinks they are all broken).

I’ve installed Tribblix on it (specifically, 0m20 SPARC, which is unfortunately the latest release). You have to configure an IP address using ipadm, then update using the zap utility (zap documentation. This server was setup with an nginx instance and a bind9 instance.

The nginx was setup with a hugo-generated static site in mind, while the bind9 server replicates dns from the main location.

I’m not satisfied with this setup for a few reasons, though. The primary reason is the lack of Zone support in the SPARC version of Tribblix. Another major reason is that software available from the common repos doesn’t appear to have any consistency. Bind will install to normal places, while nginx installs (and is configured from) /opt/tribblix/nginx. This lack of consistency in the main software repository of an OS troubles me.

Planned Setup⌗

I’ve never played around with Kubernetes to manage docker containers, so my plan is to have 4 or so K8S Raspberry Pi 3 Model B, though eventually I could upgrade to the 4 or 8 GB of RAM versions of the Pi 4.