Homelab

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I have always been fascinated with computer and network hardware. After setting up an R Shiny server on a remote machine, I began toying with the idea of running web services at home.

A homelab means different things to different people, but in general it is a term used for the act or hobby of self-hosting services on a home or small network. Typically this is for personal use or educational purposes. I use it for both. I have cut my reliance on web hosting and cloud services, improved my ability to recover from data loss and learned a lot about associated technologies, networking and security in the process. It has also opened up many avenues to learn new things, like ESP32 microcontroller development and electrical component design. It all started when I wanted to learn to learn how to manage contanerized applications inside a Kubernetes cluster...