Tag: Homelab

Some notes and screenshots of my experience upgrading VCF 9.0.2 to VCF 9.10.

My VCF homelab runs on GMKTec K8 Plus nodes which have AMD Ryzen CPU with 16 threads – which means the biggest VM that can be powered on can have only 16 vCPUs. However VCF Automation runs on…

With the announcement of VMware vSphere Foundation (VVF) and VMware Cloud Foundation (VCF) 9.1, I know many of you are eager to start planning for 9.1 and get it into your lab environment for hands…

If you want a reverse proxy that gets out of your way, Caddy is one of the easiest places to start. In this video, I test it in a practical homelab setup: serving a static site, proxying Docker apps, getting HTTPS working, and showing where the simplicity is real and where the advanced stuff starts.

Self-hosted homelab infrastructure visualizer — interactive network diagram with live status monitoring - Pouzor/homelable

How do you actually expand a management domain in VCF9, and what do I need to keep in mind? A quick guide.

Learn how to automate vSphere power management using Ansible and SemaphoreUI, scheduling ESXi host shutdowns based on Octopus Agile energy tariffs to cut costs.

Evolution of a self-hosting hobby: from clueless to amateur.

A practical deep dive into Tailscale exit nodes: route changes, traceroute evidence, DERP fallback, trust boundaries, and why this model can be free.

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

Installer Datadog sur un homelab vSphere peut sembler contre-intuitif à cause du coût habituel de la plateforme, mais cela présente des avantages réels en termes de gain de temps et de fonctionnali…

I recently picked up a Starlink Mini to use as a backup connection for my home network. The underlying technology is fascinating - thousands of satellites in low Earth orbit delivering broadband almost anywhere. With the new £4.50 standby plan, it's an excellent way to keep things online.

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

CLI agents like Claude Code make self-hosting dramatically easier and actually fun. This is the first time I would recommend it to normal software-literate people.

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, …

With a Red Hat Developer Subscription (for Individuals) it’s possible to get Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) licensing valid for up to 16 systems for a home lab at no cost!

Découvrez comment remplacer votre box Internet SFR, Free, Bouygues ou Orange par du matériel UniFi. Guide complet opérateur par opérateur.

I recently migrated my self-hosted services from a VPS (virtual private server) at a remote data center to a physical server at home. This change was motivated by wanting to be in control of the hardw

“It’s always DNS” is a famous meme among network people. Name resolution is technically quite simple. It’s “just” translating a hostname like jan.wildeboer.net to an IP address. What could possibly go wrong? I am a radical optimist and detail-obsessed knowledge collector, so I decided to find out. As part of my goal to make my home network a little island of Digital Sovereignty, meaning that everything at home should JustWork™, even with no working internet connection, a DNS server is needed.

After years of self-hosting on a VPS in a datacenter, I’ve decided to move my services at home. But instead of just porting services, I’m using this as an opportunity to migrate to a more flexible and

This post is part of a short series that builds on our minimal VMware Cloud Foundation (VCF) 9.0 deployment (2x Minisforum MS-A2) and showcases how to fully leverage the exciting new capabilities i…

You deserve some always-on gadgets—and an easier way to access them.

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.

A brief guide on how to switch from a VCF9 Operations instance to a central VCF Operations instance.

Guide by Example. Contribute to DoTheEvo/selfhosted-apps-docker development by creating an account on GitHub.

With additional Kubernetes mode!

Miniature rack builds, for portable or compact Homelabs.

Since launching the MS-01 in 2024, Minisforum has steadily gained popularity for its unique design that sets it apart from established players in the small form factor (SFF) market. Following the s…

I'm fortunate enough to live in a place where 10Gbps fiber (FTTH) is not only available but also cheap. Here's how I'm taking advantage of this.

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

Part 2 VCF Import Cluster with NFS and activating the overlay.

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.