In the Clommunity project, designed for the world's largest wireless community network (Guifi.net), we have developed a Linux Distro, called cloudy, for these kind of boxes:
http://cloudy.community/
We are using the boxes to provide "cloud" services to other users in the Guifi network (30K+ deployments). We currently have 20 rolled out with another 20 coming soon. We're expecting 100+ by the end of next year.
It supports different hardware profiles, but Intel Atom and ARM are quite popular.
Yeah sure. It's built using decentralized (gossip-based) protocols such as Serf (https://www.serfdom.io/) and you just need one IP to act as a bootstrap.
We are using the boxes to provide "cloud" services to other users in the Guifi network (30K+ deployments). We currently have 20 rolled out with another 20 coming soon. We're expecting 100+ by the end of next year.
It supports different hardware profiles, but Intel Atom and ARM are quite popular.