Inspiration:
https://dev.to/patimapoochai/how-to-run-a-home-lab-without-an-ethernet-port-220j
https://homenetworkguy.com/how-to/beginners-guide-to-set-up-home-network-using-opnsense
Good evening tech pilgrims, in our journey along the road of self discovery we sometimes enter into periods of reflection and growth that can help us in our future steps that we take. One such journey that I have been wanting to take with this path that I have been on in IT has been to build a home lab.
One of my over arching goals is to self-teach myself the skills I need to become a cybersecurity researcher. This is a more over arching goal that isn’t specific in it’s goals definite like studying for the CCNA. Yes, to me it’s more liberating to walk the self-made path and to pass fellow journeymen who are looking for there own Shangri-La or Nirvana that guides them in this wilderness that we all travel.
Without going to far off tangent the expansive world that we live in is changing so much with new advancements being made in AI. The other frontier that I am keeping an eye on is quantum computing and what effect that will have on how we interact with these interfaces in our life. But what is the point of the home-lab idea that I am building? Well it’s to confront two big points, the first being that I need a place that is somewhat isolated and safe from the world to build and practice on. The other is to host actual services that are pointing to the web (in a safe way) that I can access from anywhere. My over arching plan is to also have tunneling services running with the main services to have a management tool to configure them without the need to worry about local Public wifi or secure networks that I am behind.
I think the high for me at the end of the day is also the success that comes from taking projects that other people have built and getting them to talk to one another as well as the world. That kind of joy still gets my blood boiling and my heart racing. So come with me on this journey as we start building my digital castle…I have to ask in my robot voice, “are you ready Player One?” Let’s get building!