From 4ba38b063c8c6b2a90e4f5d17497fa61f4c5b937 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: "Joshua M. Boniface" Date: Sun, 2 Apr 2017 14:52:14 -0400 Subject: [PATCH] Replace old "Anatomy of a homelab" post with new post --- content/post/anatomy-of-a-homelab-I.md | 52 -------------------------- content/post/homeproduction-part-1.md | 10 +++++ 2 files changed, 10 insertions(+), 52 deletions(-) delete mode 100644 content/post/anatomy-of-a-homelab-I.md create mode 100644 content/post/homeproduction-part-1.md diff --git a/content/post/anatomy-of-a-homelab-I.md b/content/post/anatomy-of-a-homelab-I.md deleted file mode 100644 index 11a1c2a..0000000 --- a/content/post/anatomy-of-a-homelab-I.md +++ /dev/null @@ -1,52 +0,0 @@ -+++ -Categories = ["BLSE"] -Description = "In this series, I discuss my homelab: what it is, how it's set up, and what it does. Part one discusses the physical components of the lab." -Tags = ["homelab", "cableporn", "blse"] -date = "2016-10-18T22:54:45-04:00" -menu = "main" -title = "Anatomy of a Homelab, part I - Meatspace" -draft = true - -+++ - -It's late 2016, and the "cloud" is everywhere. It is a mythical, monlithic entity at this point, -provided by Amazon and Google and Microsoft, and meaning: "I don't need to spend money on hardware". -But despite the widely-held beliefs of middle-managers and salesfolk, even the most modern of -"clouds" needs something tangable - power and cooling and machines - humming along somewhere. When I -first started with homelabs, they were small: a router and a server running some flavour of Windows -or Linux, which could easily be mistaken for almost any corporate deployment in the late-2000's. As -time has passed and I've grown into a seasoned Linux sysadmin, I've expanded and expanded my lab. -However, while many of my ilk were flocking to the new cloud, with its on-demand instances and -smooth monthly billing, I instead chose to double-down. I've always loved the hardware, and taking -ownership of my house, I was finally able to get away with plans I never could before. And as the -plans matured along with my abilities, I started looking to that cloud as inspiration. Today, I can -safely say I'm proud of the cloud I've built, and hope now to share it with you, to entertain, to -inform, and to inspire. My growth in knowledge has been long, and will never end, but at this time I -hope I can impart something onto you! Please enjoy your read. - - -# What and why? - -The first question is: what is a homelab? Simply put, it is a collection of server and networking -equipment that a person runs in their home, instead of in a company computer room or datacenter. -Homelabbing is a popular hobby among the system and network administration communities, and among -some who don't work in the industry. I myself got into system administration through tinkering with -a small home server. Once I began my professional career after several years of schooling, I was -finally able to afford a large system both financially and in terms of time. And here we are today. - -If you're finding my blog for the first time, you should know that I'm a systems administrator -(sysadmin) specializing in the open-source GNU/Linux operating system. This means I spend a lot of -time staring quizically and typing furiously into a terminal window, making systems do my bidding. -Some would say I'm a wizard, especially myself. This isn't just my chosen career, but my passion -and my main hobby as well. It is also an industry that is constantly changing, even day to day, and -keeping up and is good takes a lot of time. But to me, it is a pleasureful and immensely fun -activity. To further the hobby side, I need an environment with which to work, and living in a full -house with a basement to isolate the sound and heat, I was able to acquire a significant quantity of -equipment over the year. And I still enjoy doing it; this is the "why". - -# The Rack in the Room - - - - - diff --git a/content/post/homeproduction-part-1.md b/content/post/homeproduction-part-1.md new file mode 100644 index 0000000..b5172ce --- /dev/null +++ b/content/post/homeproduction-part-1.md @@ -0,0 +1,10 @@ ++++ +class = "post" +date = "2017-04-02T14:47:09-04:00" +tags = [] +title = "Homeproduction, part 1: Hardware" +type = "post" +weight = 1 +draft = true ++++ +