HOMELAB DIARY PART 4: TALOS, MINUS THE MANUAL WORK
In the previous part of this series, I finally put the homelab together and installed Proxmox on each machine. In the meantime, I’ve also done some basic setup, such as updating all package repositories on each host, joining all three machines into a Proxmox cluster, and installing a Prometheus exporter to track resource usage and temperatures of each machine.
HOMELAB DIARY PART 3: BUILDING THE HOMELAB
In the previous part of this blog series, I shared what approach I chose when deciding on what hardware my homelab needs, and I also went over all the parts I ended up buying. Now is the time to finally start building and turn the pile of parts into a homelab.
HOMELAB DIARY PART 2: CHOOSING THE HARDWARE
Yes, building any computer in 2026 is a painful experience for your wallet. Unfortunately, it won’t get better any time soon (thanks, AI!), and it might even get worse, so we just have to grit our teeth and try to find the best deals possible.
HOMELAB DIARY PART 1: WHY I STARTED
In recent times, there has been a lot of buzz about AI replacing all kinds of IT professionals. From what I’ve seen, the consensus is that DevOps / Platform roles are mostly safe from this for many different reasons, some of which are that companies have a lot of technical debt or legacy tooling, which makes AI integration very difficult, or that DevOps / Platform engineers require very broad permissions, which, in the hands of AI, can be very dangerous and potentially devastating for the whole company.