This is the start of a new series about rebuilding my homelab from the ground up. Later posts will cover the platform, applications, data and lessons from the journey. This first part is about the decision that shaped everything afterwards: I was not looking for a like-for-like upgrade. I wanted a full-scale modernization.
I have written about my tiny yet powerful homelab before. It runs quite a few things for my home, including Pi-hole and a Kubernetes cluster, so when its network goes down I notice it very quickly!
The first application that I have deployed in my homelab is the home surveillance capture and feed system. I needed to set up surveillance cameras at home mainly because of my baby daughter. There are so many cameras to buy from the market with everything set up nicely and can even provide live feed through their apps, but I just DON’T trust their security at all! There are so so many hacks, not just for cameras at home, and also cameras at corprations. So I have decided to roll my own system and keep everything within my home network.
This is the start of a long overdue blog series to show you my homelab after the Pi day of 2021. But first, why do I need my homelab? Aside from the fun and excitement of building an entire server cluster on your own, it has a number of benefits:
Happy Pi Day 2021! Today I am celebrating by officially announcing my blog is now hosted on my Kubernetes cluster running on a Raspberry Pi cluster with 4 Model B Raspberry Pi 4’s, with a fresh new (dark) 😁 look courtesy of PaperMod!