Home Lab

Like most software and sysadmin nerds, I have a home lab. It’s a hodgepodge mix of old desktops, salvaged servers, and purchased equipment. I thought it might be interesting to share what I’ve done because it will also remind me how and what I’ve done. Here are the things that are worth mentioning:

• Running my own router
• [Slightly] more grown-up networking
• The charcuterie computing board
• Using Ansible (poorly) to install kubernetes
• Non-kubernetes dial-tone services: mysql and ldap
• Basic setup of a newly-installed kubernetes cluster
  • Kubernetes: installing calico and metallb
  • Kubernetes: installing cert-manager for Ingress with Let’s Encrypt
  • Kubernetes: observability with telegraf, influx, and grafana
  • Kubernetes: bare-metal volumes with TopoLVM

As I write an entry, I’ll turn the list above into links and the entries will link back to this post, which will be a table of contents post.