Just finished designing a custom out-of-band management plane for my homelab.

All built around 3 open-source Armsom @armsom_jackson Sige7 boards — next step: turning the prototype into proper HATs and writing the control software 🚀

https://sapiolab.nl/posts/backplane_for_armsom/

#homelab #raspberrypi #embedded #opensource #devops #armsom #sige7

Creating a management plane for the Armsom Sige7

Building an Out-of-Band Management Plane for My Homelab My current homelab consists of three Armsom Sige7 nodes. Having multiple identical boards allows me to experiment with different configurations, test deployment strategies, and simulate small-scale distributed environments. What makes the Armsom Sige7 especially interesting is that it’s open-source hardware. This gives me full visibility into the board layout, which opens the door to deeper hardware-level integrations that are normally difficult—or impossible—on closed systems.

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@mpiscaer I’m very curious about your software layer. Do you plan to open-source it? Also, what’s the main reason you chose to build your own backplane instead of using an off-the-shelf solution? Would you ever consider making this design available for other Sige7 users?
@armsom_jackson i wasn't aware of any off the shelves solutions. Also controlling the three buttons I did not see a ready solution. So i needed to solder a extra couple of wire on them.