Homelabbing (Sysblob.com)

Hello World - and welcome to Sysblob.com, a website dedicated to homelabbing. I’ve been a fan of tinkering and computers for a while now, and I’ve made a career of it as a Linux Administrator. However, around 5 years ago I decided to take my homelabbing game to another level. Fed up with never getting to physically touch an enterprise server, I purchased a Dell PowerEdge R730, a rack, and began an adventure of learning. Since then I’ve expanded to a 2nd PowerEdge server, 24 port switch and router, cloud servers, raspberry pis, and countless other devices. My labbing interests span from multimedia, enterprise architecture, scripting and automation, networking, coding, security, AI, and so much more. I like to keep a healthy balance of real world enterprise experience with stuff that’s just plain fun – and that’s what you’ll find here!

The goal of Sysblob.com is three fold:

• To teach concepts that can be difficult to grasp in a more direct and human consumable way
• To provide direct copy and paste how-to guides on performing setup and configuration items
• To showcase my more fun homelab projects

My lab

Normally this is the part where I would give a glimpse into some of the current infrastructure and services of my lab. However things are currently in disarray as I’m in the process of moving. Once everything is back to order I’ll update.

My hardware

• x2 Dell PowerEdge r730 8 LFF (2)E5-2660v3 2.60Ghz 64GB H730 Perc (4x)1G (2)750W (One of these runs an nvidia geforce 1070)
• Beelink SEI8 Mini Intel 8th Gen 8109U(up to 3.6Ghz), 16GB DDR4 RAM 500GB NVMe SSD, Gigabit Ethernet
• 24 port Mikrotik switch CRS326
• Protectli Vault 4 Port, Firewall Micro Appliance/Mini PC - Intel Quad Core, AES-NI, 8GB RAM, 120GB mSATA SSD
• x2 HP ProDesk 600 G3 SFF 3.6 GHz Intel Core i7-7700 Quad-Core, 64 GB DDR4 with vPro with 1 TB SSDs
• Waveshare 11.9inch Capacitive Touch Screen LCD (This is the screen in my rack if you’re curious)
• 12U adjustable StarTech Rack
• Synology NAS 920+ with x5 8TB drives and +8GB additional ram (16)
• Raspberry Pi 4B
• TP-Link EAP670 Omada WiFi 6 AX5400 Wireless 2.5G Ceiling Mount
• 2022 Mac M1 Pro (Daily driver)

Infrastructure

• Proxmox
• VMWare ESXi
• Portainer
• Jenkins
• Opnsense
• Single node k3s AWX (Ansible)
• Foreman/Katello/Puppet
• FreeIPA
• 2022 Active Directory
• Cloudflare DNS and tunneling
• Internal DNS via Unbound
• Docker/Portainer
• Apache Guacamole
• Wireguard VPN
• Tailscale Overlay network

Logging/Monitoring

• Greylogs
• Grafana
• Uptime Kuma

Hosted applications

• Bookstack
• Portainer
• Plex
• Radarr, Sonarr, Lidarr, Prowlarr, Overseerr
• Tautulli
• Transmission
• Sabnzbd
• Snippetbox
• Metube
• Organizr
• Nextcloud
• Homerr
• Metube

Diagrams

Coming soon.