It’s been a while since I wrote a blog post. Recently, I decided to get back into writing and document something I’ve been playing around with: setting up a small homelab environment on an Oracle Cloud Free Tier VPS.
As a software engineer, I’ve always been interested in what happens behind the scenes when an application moves from my laptop to an actual server. Things like networking, deployment, Linux, containers, firewalls, and DNS are all areas I’ve wanted to understand better through actual hands-on experience rather than just reading about them.
The fact that I could do all of this on a free VPS made it even better.
Why I Started This Experiment
I initially set up an Oracle Cloud Free Tier VPS running Ubuntu with:
