Zta77

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by Zta77 5mo ago
If you want to help Lightwhale make it to the DistroWatch database, you can recommend Lightwhale by clicking here: https://distrowatch.com/dwres-mobile.php?waitingdistro=1050&...
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by Zta77 5mo ago
I won't try to change your mind, but I think you should know that... Debian isn't immutable at all. Everything is writable from the partition table, the kernel, to the C library and every executable. Lightwhale has very few movin
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by Zta77 5mo ago
I'm biased, but I could see Lightwhale play a key role in this setup. You could start small, two nodes with Lightwhale in a Docker Swarm cluster. Run your server in a container. Leverage Swarm's load balancing to distribute connec
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by Zta77 5mo ago
I'll try and answer all your points: I tried to outline the project features in brief at the start of the page. I'm sorry if I didn't communicate it clearly. Feel free to pinpoint where you were thrown off. You need immutab
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by Zta77 5mo ago
I do the opposite: My workstation is where I work, fiddle with things, experiment. It 's a workbench in the context of software development. So I need to be able to modify and configure everything, install things, uninstall them agai
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by Zta77 5mo ago
Hi, thanks for taking interested in my project! I assumes you've visited the Lightwhale website and at least read the headlines: "No maintenance headaches. Just boot and focus on what matters!" and the first section, includin
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by Zta77 5mo ago
Correct, it's only terminal. Lightwhale provides only the bare necessities for you to deploy what you need. So instead of dictating a UI, you're free to choose what you like, be it Portainer, Dockhand, Komodo or something else.
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by Zta77 5mo ago
Me too. What do you mean?
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by Zta77 5mo ago
Yes, sorry. I don't use the master branch, and Bitbucket doesn't easily let me delete it. But wait, you confirmed that "3.0" isn't there, but somehow missed that "3.0.0" is? =)
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by Zta77 5mo ago
I think you're missing the point. Of course you can choose a general purpose Linux dist. But you'll still have to go through the extra work of partitioning the disk, installing the system, selecting packages, possibly follow some
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by Zta77 5mo ago
I don't have a recommended or official way. But you could look into using `btrfs send` to send the data filesystem subvolume to a backup host, preferably initiated from the backup host, e.g. by ssh into the Lightwhale server and do th
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by Zta77 5mo ago
Exactly!
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by Zta77 5mo ago
Thanks for letting me know. I really should delete the master branch because I don't use it. This is where the good stuff is: https://bitbucket.org/asklandd/lightwhale/src/3.0.0/
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by Zta77 5mo ago
Hello! I went with Btrfs for persistence, and automated some things around that. For example, if you give Lightwhale two magic disks, it will automatically create a Btrfs RAID1. During persistence setup it will also create a few default s
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by Zta77 5mo ago
Lightwhale comes with docker compose too! And docker buildx and git for good measure. This means you can clone your git repo, and docker compose up your stack immediately.
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by Zta77 5mo ago
...and then proceed and do the same again, only with a window manager =)
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by Zta77 5mo ago
Proxmox is great. I use it for experimenting with Lightwhale swarm clusters locally; I'm currently running 8 Lightwhale worker nodes with 512MB RAM each and no disk, and it's super fast and fits in my pocket. I don't conside
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by Zta77 5mo ago
Oh, but it's not a constraint. And it's certainly not a general concept. It's the very purpose of Lightwhale. Lightwhale does one thing and it does it great: It lets you run Docker containers effortlessly. And that is it
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by Zta77 5mo ago
Hello. I'm glad you asked =). So first of all, you don't install it; you just boot it. And because Lightwhale doesn't write anything to disk unless you explicitly tell it to, ( https://lightwhale.asklandd.dk/
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by Zta77 5mo ago
Yes, it is a single Docker Engine instance. But Lightwhale fully supports Docker Swarm, so you can easily build a lightweight cluster as well.
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by Zta77 5mo ago
Hello. There's a balance between "simple as humanly possible" and "usable", where "usable" specifically means "run docker containers". I feel I've hit a sweet-spot, but I'd like to h
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by Zta77 5mo ago
https://lightwhale.asklandd.dk/#faq-install
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by Zta77 5mo ago
Thanks! I'm only announcing it for home servers because that's where most people are willing to try it out. But Lightwhale is already running in production, and it makes an excellent Swarm cluster.
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Show HN: I've built a nice home server OS(lightwhale.asklandd.dk)
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