As part of my Home DNS Rebuild I decided to use Bind for DNS resolution and Terraform Cloud as an IaC Solution to manage DNS. Using Terraform gives me a lot of options to automate the creation and deletion of DNS entries as part of my workflows and infrastructure lifecycles. With Terraform managing state does […]
It’s Always DNS. This might be a joke but more times than I would like to admit, this was the case. I have in the past gone through various DNS setups, and they all worked but was never what I really wanted. But I also did not have a concrete definition of what I wanted. […]
To replicate services like you get in AWS or Azure I prefer to have a load balancer. In my Lab I am Running a AVI load balancer but my PI cluster is running in my Home Network Where I do not have the resources available to deploy a dedicated external Load balancer and for this […]
Setting up the Raspberry Pi’s This guide is great for the setup up the Raspberry Pi’s and also include the K3S and MetalLB deployment described here. Once the OS is installed and the Nodes are accessible using SSH we can begin the deployment process As part of the OS installation with the Raspberry Pi Imager […]
Overview I use a few selfhosted services in my Home and because I tend to break my Lab environment weekly these services are running on 2 Raspberry Pi’s and my NAS on the Home side of my Network. But I have, in the past few months, started using more services from my Lab in my […]
We are using vRealize Code Stream to automate some Tasks admins need to routinely do. Last week I ran into an Issue whereby we needed to trigger a pipeline on a Schedule. There are 3 options available natively to trigger pipeline executions but none of then would work for us. I initially thought of using […]
Any business or homelab will at some point require shared storage. Even thou there are many solution out there to build your own NAS I found the easy of use and compatibility of Synology or QNAP NAS systems worth the extra initial capital investment, They just work. I have a Synology DS415+ that came from […]
The UniFi Dream Machine might not be the Ultimate Firewall for your homelab. pfSense might be more Hands on, or running a Palo Alto of Cisco Firewall more Enterprise like. But the Dream Machine does have all the features I require, Good Support and a Pretty Interface. The Home Datacenter company also considered all there […]
Starting a new business(Homelab) is not an easy task. Part of the tasks that might fall into your area. The IT infrastructure for a new Business is challenging. Budgets are generally small, Skills are expensive, time is tight and requirements are ever changing. a Lot of startups might choose to go directly to the cloud. […]
In the final installment of this series I would like to go thru some of the software used in my homelab and how they are used. The following few posts I will go thru the Setup and Building of all the solutions mentioned here. I started with ESXi 7U2 deployed on all 4 of my […]