
Rebuilding My Home Lab Dashboard: From 4 Nodes to 7, SSH Key Distribution, and Status Badges
I recently did a major refactor of my home lab Dashboard. The trigger was simple: the number of nodes I manage had grown, but I left the old 4-node setup untouched — and the guilt finally caught up with me. Problems with the Old Setup The old Dashboard (v1) managed these 4 nodes: T440 (joe) GMK1 through GMK3 In reality, 7 machines were running. Excluding infra and web (which handle infrastructure services), 6 nodes plus joe were in active operation. The Dashboard was completely out of sync with reality. Migrating to the New Setup Updating the Node Definition NODES = [ { " id " : " joe " , " ip " : " 192.168.x.x " , " hostname " : " joe " , " user " : " openclaw " }, { " id " : " jack " , " ip " : " 192.168.x.x " , " hostname " : " jack " , " user " : " openclaw " }, { " id " : " work-a " , " ip " : " 192.168.x.x " , " hostname " : " work-a " , " user " : " openclaw " }, { " id " : " work-b " , " ip " : " 192.168.x.x " , " hostname " : " work-b " , " user " : " openclaw " }, { " id " :
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