Articles by Tag #homelab
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'Doglabbing' ngrok: Standardized AuthN and routing for everything
Welcome to the second in our series on "doglabbing" ngrok—you know, what we all call it when your...
O Valor do Aprendizado Prático com um Home Lab On-Premise
No cenário tecnológico atual, a agilidade oferecida pela computação em nuvem e pelos serviços SaaS...
Building My Home Server from an Old Laptop
Building Home Server A few months ago, I noticed my old laptop lying in the corner, untouched and...
How I Transformed My Old Gaming PC into a Powerful Home Server
A detailed breakdown of my first home server build using TrueNAS Scale, Docker, ZFS, and a suite of...
Review for Synology DiskStation DS925+: A feature-packed NAS
As someone who has never owned a NAS before, let alone any Synology product, I was jumping into this...
Home Lab: Chapter 8 — Kubernetes Storage with Rook-Ceph
Howdy! We've come a long way! We've set up our Kubernetes cluster, configured GitOps with ArgoCD,...
Sealed Box AI: A Runbook for Owning Your Own Local-Only AI Stack
I don’t really trust “private AI” that still runs on someone else’s hardware. Every vendor has some...
Troubleshooting k3s on Raspberry Pi (Fixing the Auto-Restart Crash Loop)
How to fix the common 'k3s.service' crash loop on Raspberry Pi by enabling cgroups and reinstalling.
Project: Building an AI Astronomy Cluster
So, I am both a Citizen Scientist doing astronomical work and a systems engineer with fairly deep...
K3S troubleshooting: Fixing K3s permission denied and port binding errors on Ubuntu Server
Recently, while setting up K3s on a Beelink mini PC running Ubuntu Server, I ran into two frustrating...
Weekend Rec Build: cifs-watch
It all started with an email from my Proxmox box, saying that the boot partition was out of...
What I self host
I've always liked reading blogs, and have used several feed readers in the past (Feedly, for...
Home Lab: Chapter 5 — Kubernetes Managing Secrets
Howdy, Secrets are a fundamental part of any application - it's how we securely store sensitive...
Home Lab: Chapter 6 — Kubernetes Ingress Controller
Howdy, In this chapter, we're going to look at how to expose services running inside our Kubernetes...
Home Lab: Chapter 7 — Kubernetes DNS and SSL
Howdy, Our environment is starting to take shape. We have a Kubernetes cluster up and running, an...
Expose the Kubernetes Load Balancer on Bare Metal using MetalLB
This article will show you how to install MetalLB in K8s and expose a load balancer in your...
My homelab keeps dying :( should I move to cloud
These past two years, I've been a digital nomad, which means most of the times I'm not at...
'Doglabbing' ngrok: Eyes-only photo sharing with immich and OIDC
The series continues! ... despite the overall lack of traction around the term I made up for when...
'Doglabbing' ngrok: Many services, one standard AuthN path
Much like James from yesterday, we have another heavy Kubernetes homelab setup using ngrok as its...
End-to-End DevSecOps Project (Movies Finder)
Overview Project: End-to-End DevSecOps Project (Movies Finder) Overview While...
Building a Transparent LAGG (LACP) Bridge with OPNsense, UDM, and UniFi — A Practical Guide
A step-by-step guide on creating a Layer 2 transparent firewall using OPNsense with LACP (LAGG) links to a UniFi Dream Machine and UniFi switch — with pitfalls, diagrams, photos, and lessons learned.
Home Lab: Chapter 1 — Requirements, Hardware, Software and Architecture
Howdy! Welcome to the first quest I'll be tackling! This one might take a while to complete, as it...
From Zero to Scale: Proxmox Kubernetes Engine
Today, we'll take a beginner-friendly look at housing Kubernetes in Proxmox. But instead of the...
🧭 Start Here: Linux Server Logbook
Welcome to my personal devlog series. A logbook of how I learn Linux by building and breaking...
Proxmox-GitOps: Selfhosted GitOps IaC Container Automation
TL;DR: This post introduces Proxmox-GitOps, a system that creates a self-managing CI/CD control plane...
Pi-hole v6: Setting up wildcard domains
In my previous article, I talked about my password and login troubles on Pi-hole V6, it seems that...
Home Labs #2: Setup Raspberry Pi with Cloudflare Zero Trust (Managed Tunnel)
Securely expose your Raspberry Pi services to the internet using Cloudflare Zero Trust — no port forwarding needed. Perfect for self-hosting and home labs!
Coolify is the best thing for Homelabs since Fiber
I've been using Coolify in my Homelab for a couple years now, and I have never enjoyed self hosting...
Building My Homelab: The Easiest Way to SSH Remotely
When I first started building my homelab, one of the things I wanted was a way to access it from...
Pi-hole v6: How to actually set a password and login properly?
My initial experience setting up Pi-hole v6 on Unraid was a real head-banger. I just could not log in...