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I'm thinking about getting started using Docker and an older Raspberry Pi. I'm already hosting a grafana service on it, so It can't be fully dedicated to ha. So curious what everyone is using.

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[–] Stiggyman@ani.social 1 points 2 days ago

Pi5 runs my reverse proxy and then all services run as docker containers on my battery stripped laptop I used in 2020.

The laptop mounts a raid5 HDD array that the pi5 maintains