HomeLab Services Tour 2024 - What Am I Self Hosting?

[@jayjake]

Tim is the kind of guy who has better internet than his ISP

[@randomm2617]

He wishes. He uses Ubiquity gear.

[@anymoustrend4074]

what's up with Ubiquti gear ? @@randomm2617

[@konstantinnikolaevich5065]

😂😂😂

[@paddler-sn7ub]

Dang, what kind of home network he got 😮. …

[@awsomepossum558]

@@randomm2617 That just means he has to reboot it occasionally

[@depralexcrimson]

bro has a full time job at home for his own home 💀

[@nandha-e]

I was just thinking that😂

[@Henry-sv3wv]

SelfHosted Burnout ^.^

[@MaxTheDog167]

I know right, but it's inspiring! That is a lot of IoT devices for Home Assistant! I am barely getting me my first data rack built (running cabling and Access Points in the house) and adding some smart switches and a few other IoT items. I feel like I never have enough time and this man is like super man building his homelab(s).

[@Wubwub772]

Self hosted gold mine you mean. This guy gets it, do what your competent at and post it youtube and write it on your cv. Instantly double all the money you make from the same skillset…

[@bdhaliwal24]

Tim you are the Plato of the Home Lab community, thanks for these ideas and most importantly the inspiration.

[@some0ps]

This is looks insane! Not even every small/medium offices had those well structured infra. Awesome. Keep it going! Have you ever thought about making a video with disaster recovery training? Like, trying to wipe all components, 1 by 1 (except backups, of course) or maybe all components if you are feeling that you're ready for this. Should be a lot of fun and new inspiration

[@johnlabu1154]

Not understanding any of this. But i'm a big fan of restoration. Not sure (data restoration?) gonna fare well on my favorite list but i can give it a try.

[@jerebaezcarballo]

This video was truly inspiring. There is an enourmus amount of work that you have put over the years and all that knowledge you have gathered shows each year in your home lab tour. And the fact that you share it all sure shows how good of a person you are. Keep it up!

[@Noobish588]

Honestly dont know how he hasnt got a ton of more subs. The videos are such a great pace, pleasing to listen to, easy to watch. Love it

[@TazzSmk]

I can only guess, because his content is rather complex for most casual users, but it's a good thing to have smaller proper audience :D

[@kennethporter992]

Yeah, I'm trying to get into homelabs & I didn't understand most of the video. The audience just isn't big enough & has a really tall learning curve

[@henrysowell]

So pumped for this video. I was definitely waiting since your hardware video. These are always so motivating to go after in the next year

[@c-LAW]

Dude, this is serious devopsie architectural methodology. I thought I'd only watch the first minute or two, boy was that wrong. Watched the who video, paused, rewinded many times. Sharing with my fellow devops architects.

[@davemeech]

Man those diagrams did a ton of heavy lifting with making some networking concepts click for me that were previously stubborn. What a phenomenal video! One of my favourites that you've put out.

[@smkoskie]

Ditto. Now I have a project for tomorrow … setting up all new vlan organization.

[@MrakCZ]

What is power consumption? It seems like a lot.

[@axtran]

For my own home network, I made a management VLAN to move a bunch of interfaces like IPMI over to it. This also kept all traffic off of VLAN 1 as well. Try it out!

[@huplim]

Thanks for sharing, Tim! Been following you from the start, and it's amazing how much your infrastructure and content have grown. Thank you for this!

[@TheInfamousToTo]

Thanks for sharing, Tim! i would love to see installation guide videos for every single part of this video !!!

[@TechnoTim]

I have updated my docs site with all software I use along with all of the related tutorials!

[@MaxTheDog167]

@@TechnoTim Yes, your docs and videos are great. I have several self-hosting KZbinrs I follow and I always appreciate the ones that provide so much details in their documentation/videos to help others!

[@frigidsoul69]

Tim just rocked the HomeLab community with this Vid! Thanks Tim for all your hard work and for sharing it with us!

[@HillPhantom]

The best explanation of a ridiculously over engineered solution that l am super jealous of lol. I think we all have tendencies to over do it, and with good reason, but dang this is one of the best/craziest set ups I have seen. Solid work and thanks for explaining it all! I was struggling with many of these things and you nailed it. I will say, I do NOT trust Heimdall at all, I moved over to homarr last year and I am glad I made the move. Great video earned a sub !

[@RuanBekker]

I just LOVE the format of your videos 🥳 incredible work! Keep it up 🎉

[@Doesntcompute2k]

Great video this year, Tim! Even better than previous. I for one could REALLY USE a TrueNAS tuning/hacks video for performance tuning. I'm running three TrueNAS Scale as VM under XCP-ng on my three Dell PE r730xd's. Three more TNS VMs under Proxmox on the Dell PE T320's. Performance is very good, but...we all can use tuning help. I'm currently trying to get Cloudflare working with my two ISPs--not as easy as I had hoped to load balance both ingress and egress. I have Dashy running. It's very good. Hard to get the widgets working 100% though. I just installed Homepage. I think I like it better, overall. Either one you have to use JSON file editing to make anything work well. Homepage can (if you setup correctly Docker containers) auto-add services to your Homepage homepage. LOL It's wicked cool in that aspect. Thanks again!

[@micahturpin8042]

9:08 good call here. I respect that you tell people that they have to make the decision for themselves as to how to logically segment their network, but I think, objectively, having your IPMI access where you do was the correct choice.

[@VishalYadav-17]

it inspires me to do something like this on smaller scale for my house but at last i don't need it, doing simple things in complicated way is what stopping me. but he is Professional so he does it as hobby or just for self-entertainment.

[@connorbunch3577]

You basically have my dream home lab. Keep up the good work! Someday I hope my home lab resembles yours!

[@muhammadshukor91]

Wow, your homelab is starting to look more like an enterprise setup than a personal lab! Impressive work! XD

[@cheebadigga4092]

thanks for the insights! I especially liked Minio hosted directly on TrueNAS, makes the most sense I think.

[@andrewwerner8566]

Awesome video Tim. You've been an inspiration to me for the last 3 years ever since I found your channel to help get my home lab started with your Proxmox install videos. Looking forward to what you have in store for 2024!

[@renewinnik568]

WOW!!! That is all I can say. I am very impressed and now feel that I have to spend more time playing with these things. Thanks

[@met_ii]

Tim, thank you for the full dose of Nerd for those of us that love it! Badass knowledge man, love the flex because it shows how you do vids for the rest of us and still know where you started! Thanks man.

[@VileStorms]

12:30 I use homarr for my dashboard, No volumes needed and highly customizable. It even allows for user accounts so you can segment different boards for different people. Mine is full of self hosted services, my dads is mostly filled with bookmarks that he wants fast access to.

[@XeliteXirish]

Great video! Would love a series or similar on doing a full E2E install on getting services running on k8. Something like uptime kuma for example which needs shared storage across the workers. Again, great video as always! Thanks

[@transatlant1c]

You’ll find that most of what you want to run has already been put into a helm chart, so it’s pretty much already done

[@commander_storm]

It is unclear what you mean. uptime kuma does neither have workers nor shared storage.

[@marcwilliams9112]

This should be the format for every APPS developer that is hired… Tell me about your homelab. Awesome video and explanations. That takes time and dedication to implement. Here’s to you doing some awesome stuff this year!

[@dominick253]

Exactly what I was thinking. I don't know what his job title is but it sure seems like he could wear any hat at a company.

[@Angelsemoule]

These are not a showcase of developer skills. It's networks, systems and existing apps deployment. The code there is only to build infrastructure. If you interview developers based a homelab like this, you're getting sysadmins or devops, not developers, and you're not creating new apps that fit your need anytime soon. For example, every single tool listed in the video needed a developer to work, maintain, improve and keep secure each applications, so you get those nice new versions and updates. That is developer's work. Both jobs are a lot of work and different skills.

[@dmytro4200]

@@Angelsemoule if he can manage(and created) that infrastructure, he sure as hell can write code(or quickly learn to).

[@Esriel123]

Didn't have time for the video yet, but had to drop in and say, you nailed it on the Thumbnail! I love how it looks. ❤

[@hotzemusic]

I feel so seen! While I am not running k8s yet (just doing Proxmox in HCI w/ LINSTOR underneath Docker VMs and LxC) I ended up basically designing my entire network around a multi-homed home assistant VM and landed with a very similar setup, for the same reasons. It was the most elegant solution to a functional HomeKit/mDNS/Casting situation, while still separating IoT devices and other stuff into their own, sane VLAN configs. Home Assistant is so clutch in that sense. I read a million and a half threads online w/ people asking how to handle mDNS and Smart Home stuff w/ a segmented network, trying to solve my issues and the answer was staring me right in the face... Home Assistant. haha. I'm still giddy over it TBH

[@justinreddick5876]

Was waiting for this to drop 🔥

[@Ibedrawin]

I've been working on building my own homelab lately, and your videos are teaching me a lot. Thank you

[@johnnyvvlog]

Just awesome! One thing you didn't mention is what you used to create the diagram of your network?

[@JensAndersson]

i would also like to know

[@shutterassault1]

Same

[@NickThomas88]

me too!

[@dpd3636]

Same 😢

[@keithweston8358]

I guess we will never know for sure...that was my first thought watching this video is what diagram software!

[@joshuarmost]

FInally set this up and its by far the best option!

[@offensive-operator]

im a full time red teamer and let me tell you that if companies start implementing the security and segmentation that you have in their networks we will stop seeing data leaks every week as long as they are not targeted by an APT. amazing job man!

[@TechnoTim]

@@offensive-operator thank you!

[@tomaylott2593]

frontend guy over here gradually expanding into full stack, ops first. This was very helpful! Thabks 😎👍

[@nyanates]

I followed your mom/NUC vid to set up my HVA Proxmox + CEPH cluster (education purposes) and those little boxes have never hiccoughed - not once so much as a whispered glitch. Love those things.

[@dominick253]

Maybe I'm missing something but i really don't like grafana Prometheus setup. Maybe I'm just not smart enough. But it's pretty annoying to use and setup. Netdata works instantly with no setup. Seems like a better fit for me.

[@F0XH0UND007]

I second this, they make it too much of a process to setup and integrate.

[@killua_148]

Man, what an exiting tour. Thank you very much for this.

[@reefwalker001]

Great video! Thanks for sharing. I am just getting started in the homelab game and your videos and channel provide so much value and inspiration.

[@andymok7945]

Thanks for sharing. You should consider putting IPMI on a management VLAN/subnet. Also consider having Proxmox wegui being on the management subnet. Followed your NUT video, great stuff. Have not finished setting up fully yet. I am getting a new server rack and switching to new rack mount UPSes.

[@Techintx]

I do the same: a separate isolated VLAN for all the management/admin screens I can. Then a separate TailScale connection just for that VLAN, just in case something goes wonky while I’m out of town. Maybe it’s a bit overkill, but layers of security add a bit of peace of mind.

[@Feriman]

Some weird sound at 6:53. I don't know it's a recording or editing issue.

[@ManjaroBlack]

Lots of these throughout the video.

[@yourlinuxguy]

at 16:30 The object storage thing is nice, I'm gonna look into it. Was thinking about S3 but why not try this locally.

[@Kyle-re4mf]

35:50 You need not to worry about the UPS complaining about 119V - that is essentially ideal voltage. if you're in the US the ANSI standard service voltage is 120V +/- 5% (at your point of service, i.e. your electric meter) and most devices will even operate fine slightly outside of that range.

[@ExpressITTechTips]

Awesome 2024 Update and given me some ideas on the Network Topology that I had not considered for home use

[@giosanchez90]

Incredible stuff, thanks for all you do!

[@TheOnewithforce]

Right on time buddy, I have started planning a migration from a Docker to k8s/k3s cluster for the sake of minor improvement and more hands on experience. Find majority of your choices very reasonable and somethings that might reuse. Well done, thank you.

[@JavierPerez-fq2fi]

Once Again, thanks Tim for sharing all your behind the scenes homelab. As someone said, trully inspiring so I am getting some ideas to grow my homelab :D

[@mt_kegan512]

There's no way I could love this video more. Thanks for keeping me motivated for my favorite hobby. Keeps my brain inspired for my mundane I.T. SysAdmin work too!

[@ColSeverinus]

Hey man, plex on k8s/k3s is easy! The most "difficult" part is getting the Intel NFD setup and ensuring proper driver support on your nodes. Been running it in my cluster for about a year now without any issues

[@DJSolitone]

Thanks for sharing this Tim. As usual you are a great source of inspiration.

[@user-XP810]

I would really like to see a video on your TrueNAS set up and optimization.

[@V3n0m151]

I love this and honestly I started my homelab journey with a TrueNAS Scale with a bunch of apps. Now I'm ready to fire up a proxmox server and a dedicated NAS via TrueNAS scale. That way I can play around with my Server and know the NAS is on its own. While also slowly working my services from my TrueNAS Scale apps to my proxmox. Great video and keep it up!

[@TechnoTim]

TrueNAS video soon!

[@V3n0m151]

@@TechnoTim I'm looking forward to that!

[@Monsieur2068]

Same on the guest network, we just have an open one with 5mb up/down and is isolated but no one ever asked for it, some use it but with it just being an open network no one has to ask for the password anymore.

[@jimmyscott5144]

What's that program you use to make the network diagram and when you were showing the switches?

[@ItsLee512]

Nice video and setup ❤ you’ve introduced me to some services I am now considering for my home.

[@CRK1918]

Nice video! ❤ In my house, I use Radius for AAA, but not in IoT network. I create each VLAN for my family member, in addition to Guest, Server, Family, Lab, Test, Management, IoT, public server, VPN network for AAA auth to different country. And all firewall and have rules. And VPN into the network I needed to managed. IPMI is on Management network, only ip base, can't talk to internet any ways. Next steps for me is bring in IPv6 for all my self host network.😊

[@alienJIZ1990]

The guest network has its uses when people do come over. I generated a QR code and taped it to my wall and tell the occasional guest to just scan it - auto joins Guest WiFi/VLAN and has a long random password with client isolation enabled. But I wanted them to be able to cast to my Shield, so I had to set firewall exceptions for Guest VLAN to get to Shield VLAN for multicast and configure mDNS Repeater. There was a lot of conflicting information at the time but it's been working like a charm for over a year now.

[@i_Kruti]

Before I even get into the video , I have to tell that the THUMBNAIL is epic....!!😂🤣 SELF HOSTING ....!!!

[@aliens1990990]

can we state that Tim has a problem right? this is more impressive than the business i work for !! this networking and load balancing is next level!

[@fretbuzzly]

Holy crap. I wish I had the time to do all of this. Very involved setup for sure.

[@davemeech]

You already had me at network and logical diagrams.

[@radiowolf80211]

I lost my shit when I saw you didn't put the VLAN numbers in front of the VLAN names in the UDM so that they displayed in numerical order lol. Amazing work man, thanks for the ideas and inspiration!

[@TechnoTim]

@@radiowolf80211 great idea!

[@mokiji766]

just makes me want to go live in the woods

[@MajorisMons]

🤣🤣🤣

[@repairstudio4940]

Man your setup is sweet, you must have a truly nice budget for these things and either a wife that's heavy into tech or she's super understanding, either way, absolutely great video and again amazing setup!! 🎉 (I will not be calling this simply a homelab).

[@jeffherdz]

I feel so sorry for our wives if anything should happen to one of us. My wife would just unplug everything and call it a day. P.S. Damn great video !!

[@PointlessExistence.]

Thanks, man! Will follow your setup for career and hobby purposes.

[@tatersaladfpv1033]

Id totally be interested in a deeper dive into your homeassistant setup if that is ever something you have thought of doing

[@cyakimov]

It'd be great if you make a video about Netboot and how you bootstrap servers with it!

[@kognitiva]

such an inspiration! I loved the last part about github runners, because its cool! Pretty passionate about self hosting indeed! : D

[@YouAreOnTheWoodway]

I'm very interested in your kubernetes setup 😍 Great video - thanks a lot!

[@chrisumali9841]

Thanks for the demo and info, have a great day

[@okasuko]

My homelab is sick. I plug my pc into my router and have FULL ACCESS to pretty much anything that exists. I can play games, I can store files, I can even share things with friends or family. It's insane.

[@90DaysOfDevOps]

Where is your dashboard running? Where is rancher running? How do you backup your stateful workloads associated to your Kubernetes cluster? Take a look at Kasten K10 (free full featured for 5 worker nodes)

[@davehoffman515]

I moved from Heimdall to Dashy and it's been a better experience. It uses a kubernetes configmap instead of a volume

[@begamess]

Would love to see video fully explained how you set up your firewall settings with ubifi with all the hardware and server

[@marcelofcandido]

A polemical question: how much does it cost to acquire all of this and to run all of this on a monthly basis?

[@Feelbest]

I would very much like a special episode about all the " secret" things about Truenas Scale. I'm going to install it myself in the very near future, and every single tweak/advise is more then welcome. Thanks in advance.

[@eherlitz]

What a lovely overview of your network. By the way, by Untrusted Server Network you could have probably mentioned DMZ, or would your setup not qualify for that?

[@bangertech]

awesome network and awesome explanation!!! Thanks 🙏🙌

[@hodnet]

02:30 😮 that unfiltered view looked like that "all-Linux-distros" diagram 😂😂 holly ***t!!

[@Sophisticated-Man]

LOL you are a god for home networking your house setup gives me chills. how you have setup all those and remembers everything

[@RaidOwl]

Just in time for my lunch break *grabs Lunchable*

[@0r_1x]

I fully expect a Lunchable review series on your channel now.

[@Techintx]

😂

[@devlondres]

Congrats on the content and on your setup. It must have taken a lot of time to build all that. I'm still new to it. Running my own trunas and proxmox on bare metal and hosting my k8s server on it. Still have a long way to go to get to my desired state and your video definitely helped me see i'm on the right path with the tools chosen by me and gave me a lot of inspiration on what to do next. Thank you.

[@TimeDoor50]

I loved the concept of load balancing your DNS and setting one up for it and then having a physical DNS server. I was wondering about how to go about DNS redundancy in my homelab. Thank you!

[@ManjaroBlack]

You are me, if I could be great. Keep up the amazing work.

[@superangrybrit]

This was a great video. Well done! 🙂

[@johnharrison712]

For your NUT Server, can you attach it by using the UPS IP instead of USB cable?

[@Sci-fi-Si]

Happy New Year Tim! Another great episode 🎉

[@marthinus.x]

Really nice work Tim!

[@truckerallikatuk]

The big question I have is: How did you get here? Why those kubernuts? I could really do with a guide series on these things. What's a kubernutty thing? What do I need to run one? Why would I choose to do that? Is it the same as Docker? If not, why not? Why choose one over the other? And then we get onto the services themselves. What do they do? Why would I want/need it? So many, many questions.

[@AnotherOneChannel404]

hardly to see the diagrams, can i download big resoution image of diagrams somewhere?

[@Indigenous_Patriot_1175]

very good video, I'm new to home labs and networking , I would love to have this as a template. I lack ideas of how-to layout my network. I have been watching your videos for a while now. keep up the good work

[@ab-ot1dz]

Incredible homelab ! Very inspiring ! A video about TrueNas would be awesome

[@_coder99]

Thanks for the vid mate!

[@jamestiller]

hey Tim, curious if you do go into detail with your PiHole lists, or if you could. Is it just a lot of babysitting in the beginning to get it tuned? and YAIS sir, happy to see this video as I am in the middle of reworking my main homelab server.

[@blahx9]

Interesting point about the work laptop. I will make a new VLAN for that alone. I limit my IOT devices to less then 1mb internet speed, incase they become compromised its some mitigation.

[@xordoom8467]

Gotta tell you, I really enjoy your video's and your teaching methods. Well done, if you lived in IL, I would hire you to work for my IT team...

[@yourlinuxguy]

Hey Tim, what do you mean when you say at 4:50 none of your camera has access to Internet, do you mean HTTP/s? or Any INBOUD+OUTBOUND traffic?

[@paulhimle]

What diagram software did you use to make the logical network diagrams