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Netdata, No Cloud: Local Parent/Child Streaming for a Homelab

Netdata, No Cloud: Local Parent/Child Streaming for a Homelab

You don’t need Netdata Cloud to get a single, local dashboard for multiple servers. This guide shows how I run a parent/collector on demoparent1.int.domain.com, stream three+ child nodes (like demochild1.int.domain.com) to it, keep the Web UI behind Nginx Proxy Manager at https:

Setting Up my UniFi Dream Machine for my Homelab

The UniFi Dream Machine might not be the Ultimate Firewall for your homelab. pfSense might be more Hands on, or running a Palo Alto of Cisco Firewall more Enterprise like. But the Dream Machine does have all the features I require, Good Support and a Pretty Interface. The Home Datacenter

The Home Datacenter Company

Starting a new business(Homelab) is not an easy task. Part of the tasks that might fall into your area. The IT infrastructure for a new Business is challenging. Budgets are generally small, Skills are expensive, time is tight and requirements are ever changing. a Lot of startups might choose

Homelab - Services and Software

In the final installment of this series I would like to go thru some of the software used in my homelab and how they are used. The following few posts I will go thru the Setup and Building of all the solutions mentioned here. I started with ESXi 7U2 deployed

Homelab - Network Design

For my Homelab Network Conceptual Design I split my Home into two Zones, each behind its own firewall. On the Home side I would segregate Devices in to 3 Categories. * Dodgy - This would mean devices I do not not trust at all, so any IOT device which I do

Homelab - Physical Design

The design of my new home network design was guided by the requirement for Internet stability and Segregation between HomeLab and Home Network as far as possible. Home Networking Design I decided to have my internet come into my Firewall for the Home Lab. This was to ensure that when

Homelab - Bill of Material

I will split the Bill of Material between what is used for my House and what is used for my Lab. These two are related but I tried keeping them separate as far as possible. I also reused as much of the Hardware I already own and for which the

Homelab - Requirements

After Multiple bad Homelab builds I sat down this time to look at what I Really need and also what fits my Budget and most importantly what my Family Will accept a a Minimum Viable Product. As my Homelab will form part of my home network and there will inevitably

Homelab - My Homelab History

My homelab history started about 7 years ago. My first homelab had little design considerations. Maybe about a week or so of reading blogs and watching some video's before I decided to go for Intel NUC Systems. The initial build would consist of 3 Core i3 NUC'