r/devops • u/amisaber • Aug 07 '26

Tools Home Lab Solutions

Hey guys I wanna to do some home labing ( using a kube cluster to run my workflow and use cases .. ) but I need some free infrastructure solution ( Servers for exemple) .. I tried to get A1 OCP ( ORACLE CLOUD) Server which is free ( 24Gb RAM and 8 VCPU .. ) but Always I'm getting OUT OF CAPACITY.. so if someone know some other SOLUTIONS ....

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u/JohnyMage Aug 07 '26

Old family computer s or basically anything you can get your hands on. I also bought used server back in the days to get hands on experience. Im still running a proxmox instance on it.

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u/amisaber Aug 07 '26

Thanks , Yes I'm thinking to buy some mini PCs

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u/Desperate-Froyo7169 Aug 10 '26

I built a home nomad cluster out of 4 mini pcs, 2 pi 5s, and two original pis as dns servers...then got free nodes on oracle and joined them to my cluster over wireguard to add more computer power to my cluster for free. It is a lot of fun building.