My Homelab is a Mess

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Originally published at: https://sysadminafterdark.com/my-homelab-is-a-mess/

My homelab is a mess. What’s that phrase again? “The carpenter’s house is never finished” or is it “The shoemaker’s children always go barefoot”? Whatever it is, it applies to me because I’m a terrible sysadmin at home.

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It’s a lot of fun running a homelab. I host pretty much everything in single node K8s on a single 6-core/12-thread machine. Besides common things like a file server and a video streaming service, some less common services I self-host are:

  1. A weather station reading wireless Acurite sensors placed around my property via an off-the-shelf SDR usb module. Pretty graphs are presented in Prometheus/Grafana.

  2. Headless game streaming service. I can play Windows games on my Arm macbook at the airport over my home VPN, out of a debian-xfce container, running in a k8s cluster, running on Ubuntu server. All with minimal lag. Still amazes me.

I’m often thinking about what I want to do next. I think next is an offsite backup for my ZFS mirror. Thinking about setting up a small machine at my brother’s, 300 miles away, and sending daily/weekly/monthly ZFS snapshots to it. Been spending a lot of time looking for dirt cheap hardware deals on Facebook marketplace and offerup.

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