Raspberry Pi #
Fills the Pi lab role — bare-metal hosts lent to tenant projects that need a Pi rather than a VM. See Substrate Compute → The Pi lab.
The SD card is the unit that moves: a project is developed on a lab Pi, and when it works the card goes into a Pi the project owns, and the lab Pi takes the next card.
Hardware #
Raspberry Pi 4 Model B: four units: specs, switch ports and console.
Network Position #
Lab Pis sit on the IoT segment. Their hostnames and switch ports are in the Network Reference and the Raspberry Pi 4 hardware page.
Operating System #
| Attribute | Value |
|---|---|
| OS | Raspberry Pi OS (64-bit) or Fedora ARM |
| Provisioning | SD card imaging via deevnet-image-factory |
Use #
How the bank is used — building an image, testing on a bank Pi, and graduating a project to dedicated hardware — is the Pi Lab in Tenant Operations. Projects that have graduated are under Completed Projects.