Lab Without a Home
30th December, 2022 - ☕ 6 min read
homelab
Preparing the homelab for full time travelling, and simplifying a lot
Debian SMB File Shares with Active Directory Permissions
1st January, 2021 - ☕ 4 min readguideSetting up SMB file sharing on Debian with AD permissions.
Project Downscale: Migration
17th August, 2020 - ☕ 7 min readhomelab, projectSo my new home server was ready to take over from the existing server rack. Here is how I went about migrating everything over with the least downtime for vital services.
Threadripper Build Part 2: Storage Boogaloo
2nd July, 2020 - ☕ 7 min readhomelab, projectAdding ZFS bulk storage to my new ESXi Threadripper all in one homelab. Here is the journey I went through getting this to work, and the issues I ran into.
Building a Threadripper all in one homelab
2nd June, 2020 - ☕ 12 min readhomelab, projectSo as part of downscaling the home lab, I needed to build a capable replacement for the existing 3 node vSAN cluster. Here’s a summary of my adventure, and the choices made along the way.
Project Downscale: The Plan
19th May, 2020 - ☕ 6 min readhomelab, projectSo it is time. I have finally decided to downscale the server situation at home. This will be a big multi-stage project, so I need to lay out end goals and steps forward.
State of the lab 2020
16th May, 2020 - ☕ 5 min readhomelabOver the last few years, my homelab has gone from zero to being out of control. Having a homelab allows me to learn a lot of skills such as networking and managing infrastructure for virtualised workloads. Here I will try and summary the lab hardware, and the software being used.
Multiple wireless interfaces in VyOS
4th April, 2020 - ☕ 3 min readguideDuring the setup of a project of mine, I ran into an issue with VyOS where I couldn’t figure out how to setup multiple wireless interfaces. So after some digging around online and some help from a few people, I figured out a way to get it up and running.
Homelab in your pocket
27th March, 2020 - ☕ 7 min readhomelab, projectSo I was just browsing reddit, and stumbled across this thing, the Fitlet 2. At first it just looked like a heatsink with antennas, so I had to look further. Turns out the specs of these things are pretty good for their form factor. This got me thinking, could this be a super portable VM host and mostly complete homelab site?
Sending specific traffic over VPN using VyOS
19th March, 2020 - ☕ 6 min readguideWant to use your router to send network traffic over a VPN connection, but you don’t want all of your traffic using the VPN? With VyOS, this is easy to setup using Policy Based Routing.
Goodbye pfSense. Hello VyOS
17th March, 2020 - ☕ 5 min readhomelabFor a while now I’ve been meaning to switch from pfSense to VyOS for my lab routers, and had started playing around in a staging environment. I decided it’s finally time to bite the bullet and migrate the production environment.