Homelabbing

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What is homelabbing?

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Why would you want to self-host?

• Learn & Experiment
• Privacy & Control
• Cost Savings

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Great! But I don’t have any hardware…

• Old desktops/laptops
  • Ebay
  • Goodwill
• Raspberry Pi
• Other cheap SBCs
  • RockPro64
  • ODROID-H3
• VPS
• ESP-32 (ESPHome)

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Challenges of Homelabbing

• Security & Maintenance
• Network Configuration
• Learning Curve

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Now, on to some services

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Immich

https://demo.immich.app

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Wakapi

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Home Assistant

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Streaming

• Jellyfin
• Plex
• *arr suite

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How to get started

• Define your goals (what and why do you want to host?)
  • https://github.com/awesome-selfhosted/awesome-selfhosted
• Start with the hardware you have (or buy some very cheap, used hardware)
• Learn as you go (break things and learn to fix them)
• Come to next week’s UUG talk on setting up your first homelab

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Questions?