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Suggestions for cheap enterprise grade hardware to run linux headless. (infosec.pub)

submitted 8 months ago by driftWood@infosec.pub to c/sysadmin@lemmy.world

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Basically what it says in the title. I did a lot of searching in Internet. I think small form factor computers are mt best bet. But I still feel they are costly for my purpose.

I am going to be running some ansible playbooks periodically on the machine. SBCs i looked at either had very high specs for this use case and thus higher price or they had other fratures i dont want like - wifi, graphics card etc.

I am preferring enterprise hardware because this would eventually be used in business where people will not settle for anything less.

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[–] catloaf@lemm.ee 13 points 8 months ago (1 children)

You're going to need to be more specific about your use case, because if you say "enterprise grade" I'm going to say "poweredge", and those are not at all small.

[–] driftWood@infosec.pub 2 points 8 months ago (1 children)

I know. I felt while writing the post that this feels wrong writing those words in same sentence. The scenario is that we would deploy the hardware on customer premises so it has to be supported and very reliable(hence enterprise grade). But i personally think that all enterprise grade hardware is way overkill for running ansible playbooks. So was trying to see if there is an intersection point between these opposite requirements.

[–] catloaf@lemm.ee 3 points 8 months ago

Maybe "industrial PC" is the category you should be looking at.