Creating a DMZ

I’ve finally decided to address one of the projects that I’ve set out to do in Part 2 of my inaugural homelab report. I have been wanting to establish a DMZ for the longest period of time, but I’ve been intimidated because of the lack of my knowledge about both networking and security. For the uninitiated: A DMZ (Demilitarized Zone) is a network that hosts public-facing services on your network and has rules applied to it to limit or completely cut off its communication with the rest of the internal network....

September 12, 2024

Highly available services

One of the biggest upsides to the recent homelab rebuild I’ve done is it gave me the ability to roll out high availability feature for my services. Sadly, not all of the services I run support it out of the box, so I kinda had to roll my own. I could’ve easily implemented it using k8s or k3s even, but I’d rather learn through that stuff properly rather than figuring it out on the fly according to my current use cases and end up half-assing its setup....

August 27, 2024