I have friends and relatives that would like to do some memory and compute intensive tasks, but lack the hardware locally. I have loads of ram doing nothing and a little compute to spare. Is there a way for me to set up some service accessible to them that would allow them to spin up VMs, similar to Linode or DigitalOcean? I know letting outside access to a proxmox server would be disastrous. I guess I could setup a VPN server into a virtualized proxmox server? Would rather find a way to point them to a url with a username and password and have them able to use my server as their vps like AWS or Linode.
Sidestepping the nightmare everyone else is bringing up: could they containerize their workloads? To me it’d sound simpler to just give them access to a Docker instance or Kubernetes on your machine.
My dad could probably figure out how to get done what he needs to in that environment, but my friend is just learning and that would be a huge leap for him. Was trying to KISS it as much as possible.
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Sidestepping the nightmare everyone else is bringing up: could they containerize their workloads? To me it’d sound simpler to just give them access to a Docker instance or Kubernetes on your machine.
My dad could probably figure out how to get done what he needs to in that environment, but my friend is just learning and that would be a huge leap for him. Was trying to KISS it as much as possible.