To put it all together, MicroShift provides a small form footprint for me to host a lightweight container platform and GitOps tooling to deploy and manage my containerized Home Assistant application. In the future, I’m considering deploying other containerized self-hosted applications such as Gra...
Well, old habits die hard. Back in the day, I worked for a company that had servers in multiple datacenters. So the first stanza (itg) is the location. In this case, my homelab: the IT Guy. The second stanza (stg) is the environment, in this case Stage. Finally, the last stanza...
If you're just getting started with your home lab, the process can feel overwhelming. You may still be deciding whether to buy new, second-hand, or pick up somecheap ex-enterprise hardware. Or maybe you will want to get a basic mini-PC, or even start on aRaspberry Pi, to avoid a ...
What this testing has given me is a clear path forward, as far as my home's virtualization lab storage configuration, all running under VMware vSphere 6 / ESXi 6.0 Update 1, with plans to run Hyper-V too. With 128GB of RAM, plenty of room for nesting testing. Special thanks to a bi...
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This is useful when you want to add a hard drive for more storage space. You can do this at any time. You can add as many drives as you want/need. After that we will talk about moving a LVM to a new system. There are some options but for most home users this is accomplished ...
“kick the tires” was to spin it up usingDocker Compose, along with my other home lab services. Since I useTraefikingress controller, I wanted to get Adguard Home up and running secured with SSL. Let me walk you guys through the process to spin up Adguard Home Docker compose with ...
Debian Dev Docker Homelab Linux Ubuntu Graylog is an open source log management platform that will collect, store, and index your logs to provide centralized monitoring and alerting for your applications and infrastructure. While there are "enterprise" editions available for purchase, the free open...
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The main goal, for the build explained in this guide series, is to turn a rather low-end consumer computer into a small Kubernetes homelab. The core platforms I use in this guide series to build the homelab are: Virtualization platform: Proxmox Virtual Environment in a standalone node. Ran...