homelab-journey-part-1
Introduction I want to start writing about my homelab and this first post can be a short introduction to how I got into homelabbing and a review of my current hardware. I’ll hopefully write about the evolution of my homelab to get to this current point and then start writing about updates as new things hit the lab. The Journey Applications | Pi-Hole # I started with a pi-hole appliance running on a pi-0 I had lying around. So, a little introduction into SSH and foreign operating systems (I was loosely familiar with Linux and so Raspbian wasn’t a huge deal to start with) and then you could just install pi-hole. After installing it I got to learn a little bit about networking, DNS, DHCP, etc. all from just exploring and trying out the features of pi-hole. Hardware # From there I happened to come into a few computers kind of for free that a church was recycling and so now with new-to-me x86 hardware and armed with a tiny bit of docker experience at work - I thought “well I wonder if I cou…