Author here! Currently taking requests for follow-ups you'd like to see for this budding blog where we will stand up cloud together. (Including you Intel N-series diehards, if you flame hard enough I might write something for you too ;) Seriously though I think both platforms have their use-cases. Here we get more cores per buck and less power per node)

I have one of those (and a few other RK3588 boards): https://taoofmac.com/space/blog/2024/06/16/1800

It’s pretty good for industrial applications, even if it gets a tad warm. I’m now running Proxmox ARM on it (with QEMU and ZFS support, but only one SSD) on it after I had an SSD failure on my CM3588 NAS. Setup was pretty trivial, and my notes apply to anything you can drop Debian Bookworm on: https://taoofmac.com/space/notes/2024/11/09/1940

The kernel/dtb support was what held me back from buying a Turing Pi 2, I'm still debating on buying something ampere based instead... the rk3588 has been out for ages, I don't see what the holdup is getting it mainlined.

Good work. Probably still a bit precarious for me to try at the moment but the idea of low power SBCs with virt capabilities is intriguing as I like to run very thin VMs to encapsulate a single small application.

Good stuff - thanks for sharing. IaC and containers are great but having the ability to run multiple VMs and create snapshots prior to performing upgrades or security patches is still very helpful from an operational perspective.

Had similar stability issues on a related board - orange pi 5 plus. Specifically wouldn’t reliably come back up on soft reboot

Also there is apparently an arm port of proximity but haven’t tried it

Or buy a RPI where you get software that actually works and is supported.