Setup

pollos is my homelab — a small cluster of Debian 13 boxes where every node is named after a Breaking Bad character (walter, jesse, mike, gus…). Pretty hostnames make each box easy to spot and a joy to SSH into. The scripts below take a fresh Debian install and turn it into another member of the family.

Stack of Mini PCs

For the OS install I recommend Ventoy — drop the Debian ISO (and any others you want) on a USB stick once, then boot whichever one you need on demand.

Index

Each script has a short URL (the chip on the right) — e.g. 001-init.sh is also served at https://pollos.cz/info.sh.

Download & run

Minimal Debian ships with wget but not curl, so use wget for the first bootstrap. Examples below use info.sh; swap in any short URL from the listing.

Download to disk (saves as info.sh):

wget https://pollos.cz/info.sh

Run directly as root on a fresh Debian box:

wget -qO- https://pollos.cz/info.sh | sudo sh

Once a node is provisioned and your local ~/.ssh/config is updated, log in by: 

ssh gus.pollos

Cluster status

Each node answers 200 over its own outbound Cloudflare Tunnel while it's alive — BetterStack polls it and flips the badge red if a box drops.

  • gus.pollos gus uptime status
  • mike.pollos mike uptime status
  • walter.pollos walter uptime status
  • jesse.pollos jesse uptime status