There is a good chance you have heard, read or have been told by other developers that you should start your homelab. It does not need not be an expensive hobby. In fact, all it takes is one laptop. I have seen people like Jeff Geerling build and document amazing homelab setups and they have been my inspiration through this journey. In this post I explain how my homelab experience has been. Why I started, how it's going and lessons I have learned along the way and how they translate to my skillset.
What I run on my homelab
First let's get a quick overview of the things I run on my homelab.
Personal website. A simple html/css/js site built with astro. Astro was very useful because I wanted something very lightweight to test out when I started.
Jellyfin. A homelab is never complete without a personal media library. Jellyfin was the first big app I decided to run. I wanted to see how well the hardware could handle workloads like encoding and decoding media files. It is a pretty good stress test.
