One goal in 2025 is to create my homelab environment.
Starting point
After 2 years of transferring to a non-programmer role I feel that my day-to-day work has shifted against software development. My hands starts being rusty and my passion towards technology starts to cool down. Although my work still involves script development and automation, the work starts to fragmentize and I am feeling my work is not "contributing" anymore.
In philosophy this is a typical case of alienation, that we never feel we "own" our action/product. This is an inevitable result with the growing size and scale of the product/platform we are maintaining. Thus this idea of creating a homelab come up, to know all the settings down-to-wire, to have it all in my own, to re-own the passion to technology.
Goal and hope
In this project the target is to build the following
- NAS that can provide storage accessible across my devices
- VPN so that I can access the files easily
- Redundant computing power so I can run automation scripts
For now I am thinking of exploring the following technologies (just to put it here first so I don't remember it)
- Proxmox
- TrueNAS
- Wireguard
- K8S
- Temporal
As the above sounds very scary and maintenance heavy, I feel it is a good journey for me to dig deeper into the whole process, a true end-to-end journey. Through this I hope to dig deep into hardware/networking/storage/automation domain, to exercise the concept I learnt in school into action.
Wishing me luck
As someone said: There is no thought without expression, no content without form. That an idea, however it feels extraordinary, does not really exist until I can actualize it. Thus I am writing this down now, to make it happen, to kickstart it. The Kotodama.