Homelab Tour 2024

Hey, that rhymes!

Happy New Year to all my subscribers!

As I said last year, I am really excited for some of the articles and projects I have in the pipeline for 2024.

What better way to kick off the new year than by re-baselining and taking stock of what I am currently running in my homelab.

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UDM Pro

I have a UDM Pro as my router. It works well. I am running UniFi OS 3.2.7 and Network Version 8.0.26.

I use a multi gig modem along with the SFP+ to RJ45 Adapter giving me up to 1.2 GBps (I am on the 1.2 GBps plan with Xfinity).

U6 Lite

I use this for all my Wi-Fi needs. I use my PoE+ (30W) adapter for power delivery.

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TRENDnet Patch Panel

Boring. You can find it here.

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Server 1: ”Darlene”

• Proxmox 8.1.3

• 2 x Intel(R) Xeon(R) CPU E5-2680 v2 (2.80GHz) = 40 cores

• 64 GB of RAM

• 250 GB Boot SSD

• 1024 GB Data SSD

This server runs three workloads currently. It runs a pihole lxc container, a pretty beefy minecraft server, and my netboot.xyz machine.

I needed to run Proxmox because I needed to test the new version. So far it has been great! I am in the process of moving more workloads to this machine. As you will see below, I have an old optiplex that runs some docker containers. Those will be moving over to this Proxmox machine in the near future.

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Server 2: “Whiterose”

• Harvester v1.2.1

• 2 x Intel(R) Xeon(R) CPU E5-2650 v2 (2.60GHz) = 64 cores

• 64 GB of RAM

• 250 GB Boot SSD

• 1024 GB Data SSD

This server is used exclusively for my Kubernetes workloads. I have a rancher server, 1 rke controller node, and 3 rke worker nodes. I have a few workload running on my cluster. I have Uptime Kuma, Smokeping, my portfolio website, two other personal websites, and a valheim server. I have everything mostly automated with Uptime Kuma.

I will be writing several articles about fully automating everything with GitOps at a later time.

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Server 3: “the optiplex”

• Ubuntu 22.04

• 1 x Intel(R) Core(TM) i5-9500T CPU (2.20GHz) = 6 cores

• 16 GB RAM

• 256 GB NVME SSD

This server runs Portainer, Your_Spotify, and Speedtest Tracker. I will be migrating these workloads over to a smaller VM on Proxmox.

I want to use this OptiPlex as a workstation again.

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And that’s really all I got.

I am expecting a lot of changes in the workloads I am running within the next coming weeks.

I don’t plan on purchasing more hardware at the moment but if the deal is there…

Happy New Year,

Joe