[ale] Cloud or Hardware?

[pete.hardie at gmail.com (Pete Hardie)]

Would some RPi's suffice to run the VMs?  cheaper and smaller than a
desktop.  Or maybe surplussed laptops?

On Fri, Jan 2, 2015 at 12:54 PM, Leam Hall <leamhall at gmail.com> wrote:

> Okay, so this is a pain. I tried to fire up Puppet Enterprise on my laptop
> and a couple base CentOS VMs. It took me almost 15 minutes and a reboot to
> regain control of the machine! The hardware just isn't there.
>
> My near term goal is to get decent at Puppet, so I need some learning VMs.
> I can do AWS small instances and pay not a lot if I remember to shut them
> down after I'm done testing. Or I could buy a server and set it under my
> desk.
>
> At this point I'm thinking the former. We're trying to live with less and
> I don't really care to have more hardware around the house. Well, actually,
> I do want more, but I more want to do with less.
>
> Opinions?
>
> Leam
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