Homelab

Its been a while since part one of this series where I intend to describe how one can build a managed cluster from scratch. It all started when I tried to build etcd on illumos and realized that it not only was executable binaries, but also etcd was more responsive…

I still remember the feeling I got when I set up my first VM and realized I could run a computer within a computer. Despite using MacOS as my daily driver on that particular machine, I could run Windows XP! Why was this so exciting? …

The delay of writing the next part in my Build a managed Kubernetes cluster from scratch series have been a tad longer than I intended. As I Found out a neat way to bring the Ingress object to the cluster without deploying an extra Ingress Controller, it turned out having…

TL;DR I got into the world of Homelabs and built my home K8S cluster out of 4 Raspberry PIs and another RPI as a NAS server. It allowed me to practice K8S, GitOps concepts, monitoring, some networking, and also to deploy A LOT OF VERY COOL SELF-HOSTED APPS! — like…

I bought a refurb Dell Z820 and decided to build a homelab. I started with proxmox and kubespray to deploy a production ready kubernetes cluster — and it was great, but support for proxmox was a bit more “non-production” than I was wanting. …

Home labs are the bread and butter for any IT professional who wants to take their technical skills to the next level. Whether it is practising setting up an Active Directory environment or detonating malware to discover hidden functionality, home labs are the vehicle to drive your journey. Home labs…

Homelab is a simple concept of self-hosting services on your local network and it can be built easily using an old computer, laptop or a raspberry Pi and some old hard drives. These services can be anything from a media server to a password manager, your own website server, a…

I recently started to selfhost some of the services like Bitwarden and it was actually pretty great at first. Then I had to access these services outside my home network. This was a problem for me and since my setup had many limitations. Normally we can access our services externally…

I would like to tell about my “humble” home lab with OpenStack in my living room. My home lab has undergone several evolutions modernization during the construction. In about a year ago, I bought my first server. It was Dell PowerEdge R610. And then something went wrong :)