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That tracks. That was my plan, a PV on the node I intended to store jellyfin and potentially other sqlite data and back em up for restore later. Will have 2 nodes with m.2 ssd storage for that.

Hadn’t heard of Talos before. Seems pretty neat. Since its run in memory I presume you could netboot it rather easily? I’ve not had issues with k3s myself but an immutable k8s distro sounds pretty nice.

I evaluated rook ceph and raw ceph but I don’t think I need the benefits ceph offers as opposed to the increase in storage of a standard NAS with parity.

That is almost exactly what I have planned as well. Glad to hear it worked out for you

Ya I’m actually running k3s on em now but they dont do much as I’m switching them all over to eMMC or m.2 storage for the os.

I’ve installed k8s manually before and that’s a fools errand. K3s is so much smoother.

Its a group of rock64 and old pi. Picked up a new orange pi5 as well so itll be a three server node k3s setup.

I was evaluating ceph but I think its overkill for my use. Too many drives needed 😅. I’m okay with parity and none of the data stored is irreplaceable. The stuff that is is off site backed up.

I really just want to mimic the Unraid drive setup and move to infra as code as its easier for me to maintain.

I may end up with proxmox in the end who knows.

Migrate from Unraid in a massive tower to a proper JBOD rig in a rack. Finally set up ARM SBC k8s cluster for most things alongside the old x86 hardware for a few services and running the NAS as I don’t know how I’d hook that up to the SBCs.