My Home Lab as it stands now is made up of a few components. Beginning with the network stack, I have a full UniFi stack consisting of a Gateway Lite, a UniFI 24 Port POE switch and 3 UniFI APs. I have 3 VLANs set, one for mst of the devices in the house, 1 for IoT devices to remain isolated, and the final is the isolated Home Lab VLAN.
Breaking out from there, I have 3 main hosts that make up my Lab. The primary host of my ProxMox deployment is a Dell Latitude 7400 laptop with Ubuntu Server running as the primary OS. This runs my ProxMox instance and a few VMs so far. My first 2 VMs hosted are a Home Assistant VM for messing around with smart home stuff, and the other is a Keycloak instance for IAM SAML and OAuth management in my mock environment.
The other two hosts are a pair of Raspberry Pi 4B’s running RaspOS Lite. So far I have experimented with PiHole on one, and the other will be a DC for my mock AD environment to host identities.
For now, this is my set up, but soon I plan to add monitoring via Promethus and Grafana as well as a connection to my Azure and AWS development accounts for further expansion.
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