100 Days of HomeLab - 1 Year Later
A year ago I started a challenge that encouraged everyone to join the #100DaysOfHomeLab challenge, a challenge designed to help improve your skills in IT. This is similar to any of the “100 Days” c...
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My Mobile HomeLab! (Travel Router with Proxmox, Docker, and OpenWRT)
This has been months in the making, my new Mobile HomeLab! It’s a device that I can take with me to provide secure internet access for all of my devices. Not only can it provide secure access, but ...
Meet Scrypted - Stream ANY Camera to ANY Home Hub
Meet Scrypted an Open Source app that will let you connect almost any camera to any home hub, certified or not! You can connect popular devices from UniFi, Amcrest, Hikvision, Nest & Google, T...
Mirror your Kubernetes configs, secrets, and resources to other namespaces
What is Reflector? Reflector is a Kubernetes addon designed to monitor changes to resources (secrets and configmaps) and reflect changes to mirror resources in the same or other namespaces.Since s...
Low Power Cluster - Small, Efficient, BUT Powerful!
I’ve been running a few clusters in my HomeLab over the past few years but they have always been virtualized inside of Proxmox.That all changed today when I decided to run my Kubernetes cluster on ...
Building a Low Power, All-in-One, Silent Server
What if I told you that this little machine is the perfect Proxmox Virtualization server? And what if I told you I crammed an intel core i5, 64 GB of RAM, a 1 TB NVMe SSD, another 1TB SSD all in t...
Automate Cloudflare with Terraform and GitHub Actions! - Terraform Tutorial for Beginners
Today, we’re going to set up and configure Terraform on your machine so we can start using Terraform.Then we’ll configure cf-terraforming to import our Cloudflare state and configuration into Terra...
Rotating your Encryption Keys and Updating your Secrets with SOPS
If you’ve been encrypting your secrets with SOPS and Age you know how useful it is to keep your secrets safe from prying eyes. If you’re not familiar with encrypting your secrets with SOPS and Age,...
Configuring VLANs, Firewall Rules, and WiFi Networks - UniFi Network Application
What is a VLAN and How Do They Help? Today we’re going to cover setting up VLANs using UniFi’s network controller.We’ll set up a VLAN, from start to finish, which includes creating a new network, ...
The Ultimate Guide to Wake on LAN for Windows, MacOS, and Linux
What is Wake on LAN and why is it so hard? After releasing my video on the PiKVM I realized that there was so much confusion about Wake on LAN, and rightfully so, that I decided to put together th...