Homelab

I’ve been getting into self hosting a lot more services over the past few weeks and months as I’ve been on a quest to actively get rid of subscriptions and cloud services and hosting the services myself. At the start, I just made these services available over VPN because I didn’t feel comfortable exposing them to the internet. But as time went on, I noticed I was really missing the public access. So I decided to figure out how to safely expose services publicly. ...

One of the reasons I got my homelab was to test out stuff that I don’t necessarily have access to at work. Recently, vIDM has peaked my intrest so I decided to deploy it. I had already deployed vRealize Suite Lifecycle Manager so why not use that for the deploy! Getting everything ready Before we can actually start installing vIDM, we need to get the binaries onto vRealize Suite Lifecycle Manager (vRSLCM). This can be done in three ways; connect your MyVMware account and download everything onto the appliance, copy the binaries to the appliance yourself through WinSCP, or connect vRSLCM to an NFS share. We’ll be using the last option here. ...

Homelabs…It’s a topic that gets a lot of interest everywhere. We’re all geeks at heart who like to tinker with hardware and play around and break things. I haven’t had a homelab since I sold my Supermicro server back in 2016. Back then, I had access to a lab at my employer and felt that I could no longer justify the cost of running that thing in my basement. Fast forward to 2020 and I find myself really missing that lab. ...