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5 months agoYeah. I just bought 6 ESP32-S3 with external antenna for €48… So yeah, the ESPs are still very affordable.
But it’s true that Raspberries and similar boards have become very expensive. It might be worth looking at the second hand market. Personally I have started replacing most of my old Raspberry Pi 3b projects with used Intel NUCs, where each NUC can replace several Raspberry Pis in performance.
Only 27 containers? That rookie numbers… You gotta pump those up!
I’m currently sitting at 131 containers across 3 Kubernetes nodes, all bare-metal though, no virtualization.