The homelab adventures take 2. Although I haven't blogged about my homelab in the past this is the second attempt at building one. As my role as a Lead Solutions Engineer in AdTech I am finding myself using things like Kubernetes and Docker a lot more. Therefore to learn them inside out, I have started to build out my homelab.

This is my current lab.

2x - Lenovo ThinkCentre M720q Mini PC i5-8400T / 32GB RAM / 1TB NVME. Running a Promox cluster

My current plan is to host a docker host and run a few things in containers to get up and running. The plan is to run everything in a Kubernetes cluster.

This is what I have hosted so far:

• Pi-Hole on its own VM running my local DNS
• Single VM hosting my own Docker registry
• Docker host running on a VM running Portainer.

On Portainer I only have running currently, Homer dashboard and Uptime Kuma.

The plan is to run a Kubernetes cluster across 6 VMs spread across the two Proxmox nodes. I would like to get another M720q to build an HA Promox cluster, then because of my slight OCD another M720q to run pfsense. I don't think I could have 3 on a shelf it just wouldn't look right.

In terms of storage, retire my WD Cloud for a self-built NAS running TrueNas with a spec along these lines. This would be used for general network storage and VM backups.

Moving forward I will be posting my learnings and my upgrades. So far everything is pretty simple, but I want Kubernetes, VLANs, the works. So keep an eye out for these pots.