In this video, we talk about my top 5 home lab projects that I have tackled in 2024. These projects have taken my home lab environment to the next level. I have learned a lot and adopted containers as my primary tool for running production home lab services. Take a look at the projects and see how these came about in my home lab journey in 2024.
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Introduction to my top 5 home lab projects in 2024 – 0:00
Sponsor message – 0:32
1. Learning new hypervisors in 2024 – 1:17
2. Doubling down on containers in 2024 – 2:44
Talking about container advantages – 3:57
Walking through my containerized environments – 4:11
3. Learning container orchestration in 2024 – 6:09
Looking at my Docker Swarm cluster with shared storage – 6:39
Talking about Microk8s – an easy Kubernetes distro – 9:22
4. Open-source software-defined storage – 10:12
Looking at my Microk8s cluster in Lens – 11:02
5. Switching to mini PCs in 2024 – 11:59
Details of my mini PC setup – 12:14
Wrapping up thoughts on my top 5 home lab projects in 2024 – 12:46
What were your best home lab projects in 2024? 14:03
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My biggest projec t of 2024, was actually have a decent homelab, I went to the opposite direction, retireing my two mini PCs, that unfortunately didn't show good quality, having problems with the USB ports and the need to replace the processor fan in both… Now I have three machines with i5 10th gen, 32g RAM and 3 4Tb HDDs for ceph and 3 512gb SSDs. With this setup I'm exploring proxmox, running homeassistant, openmediavault, openvpn, pihole, gitea, an lxc conatiner with docker, a local ubuntu repo to serve my ubuntu VMs and LXCs and speed up updates, monitoring proxmox with an influxdb with grafana, and monitoring all of it and my entire home routers and iot a zabbix running with a 3 mariadb-galera cluster and MaxScale solution for DB redundancy…. Also learning a lot here! For 2025 I intend to focus in kubernetes and CI/CD… And ALWAYS watching your videos!
Nuce video.. Do you mind sharing any link you used to skill up your Docker knowledge? I am with you I think this year I need to level up my knowledge on this subject. Lastly I know you're running Palo at the edge, but have you looked at Cisco's FTD?
Excellent presentation. Thank you. Thanks to many of your videos, I have gone head deep into Proxmox this past year and have really enjoyed the adventure.
Thanks to your guide now I have docker swarm in my homelab, though I use NFS instead of microceph. Will be closely following more projects!