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Hardware Specs

Open ShosMeister opened this issue 3 years ago • 8 comments

The basic ReadMe indicates a Pi 4B but doesn't recommend amount of RAM nor the size of the SD card. For a basic beginner wanting to start this project, what should I buy?

ShosMeister avatar Jun 03 '22 00:06 ShosMeister

This project was written (primarily) for a RPi 4B because of the Gigabit Ethernet capability; That being said, there is nothing stopping you from running this on a Pi 4B with 1GB of RAM (though you will not be able to run any other containers beyond those outlined in the Ansible file).

As for the SD card, I believe the bare minimum was 8GB, however you'll want more storage (32GB+ I would recommend as the minimum based on my own testing) if you want to keep very long term (6+ months) worth of graphs, logs and data for Grafana and Pi-Hole.

802compute avatar Jun 03 '22 00:06 802compute

In addition to running project this on a physical Raspberry Pi, there is also nothing really stopping you from running these as a container or even a VM on an entirely different host (e.g. Proxmox).

802compute avatar Jun 03 '22 00:06 802compute

Thanks for the input! I'll start with a 16GB card (unless the 32's are cheap) as my next two projects - probably at the same time - is a PiVPN and getting a NAS running - thinking the Asustor looks good. So the data will be offloaded to there; that's the plan anyway.

ShosMeister avatar Jun 03 '22 10:06 ShosMeister

Is the Ansible(?) file run from the Pi? It almost looks like it's being run from another host/VM but it's not really clear. Is there a better readme/help/install doc that I could use?

ShosMeister avatar Jun 06 '22 10:06 ShosMeister

@ShosMeister, Ansible itself is a tool for software / config managing a few control nodes. So that's probably where your confusion comes from, because in inventory.ini you can either specify an IP address, if you want to run Ansible on another machine then your Pi, or you specify the localhost / 127.0.0.1, if you run Ansible directly on the Pi.

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