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How I Turned a Raspberry Pi into an Open-Source Edge Cloud with OpenNebula

H.2213 | Day 1 | 13:00 - 13:30 | Speakers: Pablo del Arco

How I Turned a Raspberry Pi into an Open-Source Edge Cloud with OpenNebula
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Abstract

This talk shows how a Raspberry Pi can run a complete open-source cloud using OpenNebula. With MiniONE handling the installation and KVM doing the virtualization, a Raspberry Pi becomes a small but fully functional cloud node capable of running VMs, containers, lightweight Kubernetes clusters and edge services. The goal is simple: demonstrate that homelab users can build a full cloud stack with compute, networking, storage and orchestration on affordable hardware using only open-source tools. A short demo will show a VM launching on a Pi-based OpenNebula cloud, highlighting how the platform scales down to tiny devices while keeping the same clean and unified experience found on larger deployments.

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Pablo del Arco

Pablo del Arco is a seasoned cloud and DevOps engineer with strong expertise in Kubernetes, cloud infrastructure, IoT and virtualization. He has hands-on experience building and managing private and edge clouds — notably using OpenNebula — including a recent project where he demonstrated that a fully functional private cloud can run on low-cost hardware such as a single Raspberry Pi 4.

Pablo is also an active open-source advocate: he writes about cloud-native, Kubernetes and homelab topics, shares practical guides for hybrid and homelab infrastructure, and contributes to the broader community of cloud and edge builders.

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