Tag: Homelab

Let's make a tiny, standalone CA! We'll use a Raspberry Pi 4, YubiKey 5 NFC, and Infinite Noise TRNG.

Getting from Delhi back to a Minnesota meant unforgiving networks. Tailscale Peer Relays offered a massive improvement.

This post explains how I operate my homelab with no public WAN exposure, using WireGuard to stay permanently connected to my home network from all my devices, …

When working on my homelab, I regularly need to pass credentials to my tools. A naive approach is to just store the token in clear text, but there's a better alternative. Let's see how direnv and the Bitwarden password manager's CLI can be hooked together to let me keep my infrastructure credentials safe, in a simple, sturdy setup!

How to migrate from RAIDZ1 to RAIDZ2 without a spare ZFS server or a boatload of extra disks.

With additional Kubernetes mode!

Miniature rack builds, for portable or compact Homelabs.

For one of my network storage PC builds, I was looking for an alternative to Flatcar Container Linux and tried out NixOS again (after an almost 10 year break). There are many ways to install NixOS, and in this article I will outline how I like to install NixOS on physical hardware or virtual machines: over the network and fully declaratively.

Explore essential homelab services for 2025 including Plex, Jellyfin, the *arr stack, Immich, Home Assistant, Pi-hole, Grafana, and more.

A decade of firsthand advice on going from an employed software developer to successful indie hacker running your own business(es).

Why you should use MAC Learning

After a homelab crash, the VCSA file-based backup isn't working anymore. In this post I'm describing how I was able to get the VMware Postgres Archiver service back into operating state by interfere with vCenters vPostgres instance.

Mapping Pihole to Tailscale and enabling subnet routing has made accessing my homelab outside the house an absolute joy.