How I Keep My Home Lab Safe While Experimenting with New Tools
What are we talking about? Keep a home lab safe??? Well, it is easy to get carried away when you run a home lab. The whole point of having one…
Virtualization, Cloud, DevOps, Reviews
What are we talking about? Keep a home lab safe??? Well, it is easy to get carried away when you run a home lab. The whole point of having one…
There is no question that Terraform is my favorite infrastructure as code tool in the home lab for standing up infrastructure. Ansible is my favorite for configuration management. With Terraform,…
We have exciting times to be able to run a home lab with all the automation, AI, and other tools available to us to use. In fact, I am more…
In case you haven’t seen the news, TrueNAS announced a new open beta of a new and exciting app called, TrueNAS Connect. It is a hosted, management interface that is…
Every accomplishment in the home lab starts with curiosity about various technologies. That to me, is the spark that motivates all of us. We want to try new things, break…
Backups are never the “fun” part of a home lab and honestly it may be one of the last things you think about. I know for me the most exciting…
When I say that my home lab has changed over the years, that is definitely an understatement. It has gone through several iterations of build outs. Most of the upgrades…
DNS is absolutely one of the core critical services in your home lab environment. It isn’t flashy or the “next new thing” but if DNS isn’t working, nothing else will…
Reverse proxies I think are one of the most important services that you can spin up in your home lab. In fact, if you caught my recent blog post and…
Recently, I covered the first services that you should spin up in a home lab, including core services that are needed to make sure things work as expected with apps…