This trip is a POC for running a standalone cluster unfortunately without kubernetes. These devices do not support groups, so docker and containers are out. That being said I can run a variety of services at the edge as long as the limited bandwidth is taken into account

here is a image of the tested download/upload speed i should see when finally setup in newfoundland:

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All workloads have to be lightweight and run on any of the three nodes in the cluster. For now I'm starting off with the blog site and add services from there.

Running Services on a battery powered Lab.

As far as issues running the environment,all services need to be either run at boot or scheduled to run at a specified time. having schedules is tricky as the cluster may be down for power (battery) swap at any time, so i'm going to build in a process that checks the last time a service trigger or timer was run and if it was skipped to kick in the next time the system starts up.

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