Today is officially the start of the Christmas Holiday shutdown here down under and one of the things I wanted to accomplish during this period is to revisit my home lab, shake off the dust and repurpose them to something more useful.
In this post I will provide an overview of my home lab to get started with the reorg. This will serve as an inventory of some sort as well. :-)
Hardware
| Device | RAM | CPU | Storage | Arch |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Raspberry Pi 1 Model B Revision 1 | 512MB | Broadcom BCM2835 700Mhz | 8GB SD Card | armv6 |
| Raspberry Pi 1 Model B Revision 2 | 512MB | Broadcom BCM2835 700Mhz | 8GB SD Card | armv6 |
| Raspberry Pi 3 Model B+ | 1GB | Broadcom BCM2837B0 1400Mhz | 8GB microSD Card | armv8 |
| Synology DS411 | 512MB DDR3 | MARVELL Kirkwood 1.6Ghz | 2x2TB HDD | amd64 |
| Mikrotik RB750GL | 64MB | AR7242 400Mhz | 64MB NAND | mipsbe |
| Mikrotik RB250GS | 96K SRAM embedded | Taifatech TF470 | N/A | N/A |
Network
At the edge of the network, there is a Huawei B315s-607 LTE home gateway supplied by vividwireless. I was planning to use my Linksys E4200 (which I brought when we moved here from Singapore) as my primary wifi router but it doesn't appear that the Huawei router has a bridge mode to offload the wifi function so I'll be stuck with this setup for now.
Also, I am planning to deploy the OpenFaaS serverless framework on the RPi k8s cluster and turn it to something more useful. I am going to try to publish a post and share the experience.
That's all there is right now regarding my home lab. Please feel free to comment below if you have any questions.
