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Cluster Of Laptops?

Currently I run most of my home lab services on a single machine and I'd like to learn more about managing a cluster of machines both for personal reasons and to help me at work. I'm dealing with a lot of cloud providers and getting more comfortable with kubernetes and various tools for managing distributed services would be beneficial.

I know that miny/micro/tiny PCs are popular for setting up small homelab clusters but the prices have gotten a little extreme to the point where it's expensive to even buy raspberry pi. Laptops though still seem to be able to be purchased, used at a reasonable price and would have lower power draw than some of the bigger tower machines.

Is anyone using three or more laptops to build a cluster at home? Is this a bad idea? I know I would have to deal with networking (either hoping to find the business devices with an Ethernet port, connect via dongles or just use wifi) as well as power management with the lid. My hope would be to setup bottle rocket on all of them, establish kubernetes cluster and manage services with Argo.

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