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A Raspberry Pi cluster


I've been using a Raspberry Pi for my self-hosting needs, but last week it ran out of disk space because of Mastodon. The Pi was running on an 8GB SD card, so I order one with 128GB so I don't have to worry about it for a while. Since I have a few Pis at home I decided to split the services across a few of them.


I ordered a small 3D-printed case that holds 4 Pis and a hard disk, and this is what I'm planning to do:


Gateway (Pi 3)


This Pi will have an external IPV4 address, and forward ports to the other Pis. I'll probably create a new wifi SSID for the Pis, since it's simpler than wiring them through a hub, and I don't care about latency. This Pi would be an access point for the other Pis, keeping them isolated from my main wifi SSID.


Application (Pi 4 8GB)


I want to have a Pi dedicated to running applications. This includes:


My personal Mastodon instance.

Mosquitto, a message queue that I use for home automation.

SeƱor Octopus, a custom home automation/data archival tool that I built.

Shoutout bot, a Slack bot that I use or people to send shout-outs at work.

Jetforce, a Gemini server. I'm currently running my capsule on a VPS.

A custom IndieAuth provider that I wrote.

Apache Superset, a data visualization web application that I work on.


Storage (Pi 3)


The third Pi will be used for storage, running my database and a large disk for remote backs via duplicity:


Postgres

3 TB hard drive


Mail (Pi 4 4GB)


Finally, I've been considering moving my mail server home. I currently run Mail-in-a-box on a VPS, and it would be nice to have all my hosting from my closet. I'm somewhat worried about my network connectivity (I have a line-of-sight provider), and with being without email when the internet is down. But I can always have Pi #1 (the router) connect to my mobile hotspot in cases like that.


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Published on 2021-09-23 22:06:47+00:00 by Beto Dealmeida <roberto@dealmeida.net>.


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