Home Lab Tour 2024: Servers, Apps, Docker, and more!

It is that time again! My home lab tour 2024 takes a look at the journey my home lab has taken in 2024. I have fully migrated workloads to mini PCs in 2024, focused on containerizing everything that is critical in my lab, and doubled down on learning DevOps and GitOps as well. See what mini PCs I am using, storage solutions, networking, applications, DevOps and GitOps tools, and more!

See the written blog post covering the home lab tour in 2024 here:
https://www.virtualizationhowto.com/2024/12/home-lab-tour-2024-hardware-software-containers-and-more/

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Introduction to this year’s tour! 0:00
Mini PCs – 0:35
Standalone ESXi and Proxmox servers – 1:26
Unifi EdgeSwitch XG16 for 10 gig top of rack – 2:04
Ubiquiti 48 port 2.5 switch – 2:19
Hypervisors – 2:46
NVMe memory tiering in VMware – 3:10
Experimenting with Proxmox – 3:31
Containers and orchestration – 3:53
Docker Swarm – 4:05
Docker Swarm video – 4:11
Kubernetes distro of choice – 4:35
GitOps – 4:53
Storage changes – 5:22
Ceph storage – 5:34
File and Block storage and Ceph dashboard – 6:00
Software solutions – 6:22
Pi-Hole – 6:40
FreshRSS – 7:17
Hashicorp Vault – 7:49
GitLab – 8:41
Portainer – 9:34
DroneCI – 10:18
phpIPAM – 10:39
Grafana for dashboarding – 11:08
ArgoCD – 11:43
FluxCD – 12:13
Portainer GitOps – 12:35
Backup solution – 13:08
Duplicati – 13:45
MinIO for S3 compatible storage – 13:59
Fun things like Plex, Minecraft, etc – 14:22
Reflecting on things learned in 2024 – 14:40
2025 plans in the home lab – 16:03