Posted in IKEA Cluster on Feb 1st, 2016
I’ve made a few updates and overhauls to ikeacluster over the last year. Now the cluster is its own layer 3 rack running BGP to my home network, neater cabling, more bandwidth and uses some new Avoton motherboards. https://binaryfury.wann.net/ikeacluster/#updates
Posted in IKEA Cluster on Dec 13th, 2014
With EdgeOS 1.6 for the EdgeRouter line, Ubiquiti upgraded the Debian distribution from squeeze to wheezy. Along with a more modern 3.10 kernel this gets us a newer version of Ruby too, 1.9.1. During upgrades the system is blown away so I lost my Chef client. I had problems re-bootstrapping my routers until I finally […]
Posted in IKEA Cluster on Sep 27th, 2014
I recently started using Ubiquiti’s EdgeRouter Lite to replace the routing functionality of my Airport Extreme at home and for some other networking projects. I really like this little box, $99 gets you a 3-port gigabit router and it can really churn through packets. It runs EdgeOS, which is based upon Debian along with the […]
Posted in IKEA Cluster, Uncategorized on Oct 24th, 2013
Yes! Web-scale home electricity tracking, because why not! For the longest time I’ve been using the Kill-A-Watt meter to measure home power usage, especially all of my computer gear. The problem is, you only get a LCD readout, no way to store that info over time. A friend told me how he was using Insteon […]
Posted in IKEA Cluster, Uncategorized on Feb 17th, 2013
A couple of months ago I acquired a stack of Raspberry Pis because they were so hard to get, might as well get it over with. Of course, once I got them they went untouched for weeks. I eventually started selling off part of my stash to other coworkers to help spread the fun. After […]
Posted in IKEA Cluster on Aug 26th, 2012
I finally gave in, adding fans and a 620 W ATX PSU to the IKEA cluster. Fortunately it remains fairly silent and draws little power. If I was going to power 8-10 servers in the cabinet, multiple 192 W 12VDC power supplies got clunky and the hard drives generated a ton of heat that couldn’t […]
Posted in IKEA Cluster on May 27th, 2012
Ever since the mini-ITX bug bit me this spring, I’ve been intrigued by the little Linux clusters people have been building with them. I absolutely despise loud and bulky home servers (not to mention their energy consumption) and thought this was a great idea to get a lot of computers into a small footprint with […]
