homelab

This weekend I wanted to explore Wireguard and the option to setup split tunnel inside my cluster to route some traffic to different country. This proved to be journey and a half. So let’s buckle up and dive in. Wireguard Wireguard is basically the standard of VPN tooling currently. It’s being used by a lot of zero trust and overlay networks like Tailscale and Netmaker. You can have it included in kernel or it can be used in user space with Wireguard-go, this gives it incredible flexibility of deployment....

Overlay network My homelab is currently using Tailscale which is awesome service and most homelaber are using it and I fully recommend it for anyone. But it’s not selfhosted and it’s not as flexible as I would like it to be. Netmaker is solid choice, but thanks to them modifying the /etc/hosts file, I’m unable to use it on nixos. OpenZiti great new option. Supporting all possible usecases and it can be selfhosted and it’s new way how to do zero trust networking....

For anyone working or wanting to work as SRE, devops or any other infrastructure related role, running homelab is the best thing you can do. You will get to experience hands on all of the pains and troubles that will prepare you perfectly to these roles. Plus is so much fun tinker with hardware. What’s a home lab? Anything… Literally anything can be your homelab. There are people running homelabs from raspberry pies, to whole racks full of servers and other hardware....