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Luigi 💚Jul 11, 2023

Hello #homelab and #selfhosted community! I want some basic orchestration for my homelab and in another toot some users told me they`re using #nomad.
How are you using nomad? My idea was using a single VM for server + client agent, but there's minimum resources about this deployment, I don't need enterprise high availibity as I'm running a homelab, but maybe I can run a VM for host and another for agent? So I have better allocated resources?

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Tupcakes Jul 11, 2023

@luigi I’ve got 5 nomad nodes (2 old laptops and 3 raspberry pi 3s). Honestly it’s been really nice. I use gluster for the storage and I have consul running on all the nomad nodes. My setup is a bit overkill for what I’m doing, but you can certainly run nomad like you mentioned. You can even run it on a single node if you want to, but I wouldn’t do that in a production environment of course. :)

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Luigi 💚

@tupcakes Cool! Do you monitor nomad's resource usage from the server perspective? My homelab have some "production" services but it's not anything critical that needs HA, so I'm thinking running single node cluster just to save some resources of the computer. I have 2 VM one with 8GB and 6GB of RAM but I can spin up one VM with 2 or 3 GB of RAM and only install the agents on those 2 reamining, or nomad will need more resources? Thanks in advance!