For the past week, I have been keenly working on setting up my home lab. I got this inspiration suddenly after seeing the Raspberry Pi that was sitting idle on my shelf. I was thinking, why not put it to good use and do something with that? Now my Raspberry Pi is acting as a travel router where it is connected to the ISP directly, and from my Raspberry Pi, the internet is shared to another router to distribute to the other systems. This is something that I wanted to do for a very long time. Initially, I was connecting the second router to the ISP router directly, but my ISP does not allow that. Now having a travel router is a big relief, and it brings a lot of advantages with it.
Source - Gemini
With this setup, my plans are to expand this small setup to a bigger home lab so that some of the applications that are good for home lab can be hosted there and used from my home lab instead of using it as applications from individual devices. I already started using some services like Syncthing to keep my files shared across multiple devices. Later, I might go for a proper NAS setup.
A few days back, I wrote an article on how I'm running Honeygain as an application inside my Raspberry Pi. I'm glad that I'm able to put my Raspberry Pi to good use now. It was a device that was almost thrown away by my cousin after his final year project. I asked him, and he gave it to me, and now it is of good use.
I'm learning other setups now where I can use Pi-hole and other applications that can be helpful for a home lab setup. Of course, I cannot run heavy applications on my Raspberry Pi, but I can run some simple Docker containers. I will continue this exploration, and I would like to use this as a setup to access my applications from any device, even if I'm travelling.
This is also something that I wanted to set up. Now that coding is minimal, it is enough if I just do some prompts on the code and review it. If VS Code can be deployed in one of my home lab servers, I can even use my iPad to do the prompting and review the code. This will be of great help to me. If required, I can even do the coding from my mobile device, if I'm not wrong. I'm not sure how it works, but I have to explore and see.
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