What's with the overkill hardware setups?

https://lemmy.world/post/24850430

What's with the overkill hardware setups? - Lemmy.World

Lemmy

People who are proud of their gear post it.

You seldom hear from the folks running a half dozen VMs on a laptop.

We use containers now btw
My home lab is my windows gaming PC running containers on a Ubuntu VM as a guest os in Hyper-V.
We are all over the shop.
I wish I knew how to do that. Can’t get my VMM or Virtual Box running well.

I run a cluster of VMs that run kubernetes and manage those VMs with containers that run Terraform and ansible. Along with baremetal RISC-V workflows and ASICs.

A tool is a tool and one should pick what works for them.

Why? Wouldn’t the VMs add extra complexity? Couldn’t you just run the containers on the machine?
Do you have experience with kubernetes or kubectln and DR?
I keep my laptop in a bookbag thanks.