Basically what it says in the title. I did a lot of searching in Internet. I think small form factor computers are mt best bet. But I still feel they are costly for my purpose.
I am going to be running some ansible playbooks periodically on the machine. SBCs i looked at either had very high specs for this use case and thus higher price or they had other fratures i dont want like - wifi, graphics card etc.
I am preferring enterprise hardware because this would eventually be used in business where people will not settle for anything less.
You’re going to need to be more specific about your use case, because if you say “enterprise grade” I’m going to say “poweredge”, and those are not at all small.
Two things you need to answer to get any relevant answers. What is the budget and what is your required spec and software stack.
Deployment is probably more important than hardware for enterprise one-off machines.
Raspberry pis are plenty reliable, though maybe you could opt for something with a case, an N100 and a more reliable SSD, for a similar price.
Your use case sounds like something a nuc or sff from minisforum could handle, but if you want “cheap” and “small enterprise,” both ambiguous terms, the supermicro superservers should fit the bill.
Just grab a cheap server off ebay
So this will be deployed for customer sites. I dont think they will be happy with second hand stuff from ebay 😀 For my personal stuff i would have been happy with that though.
In that case just go with a cloud service provider