See intro for what this is about

Non-automated Progress #

Here are all the things related to the homelab that contribute some of the way but aren’t in a desired automated state or aren’t part of it.

• Started this blog and serving it.

  • TODO: Provision it in an automated way into one of the provisioned containers.

• Started gitea and serving it.

  • TODO: Provision it in an automated way into one of the provisioned containers.

• Building an incus rpm with make for AlmaLiunx 9.6

  • TODO: Integrate it into CI/CD

• Got incus running on the homelab test host.

  • TODO: Use terraform to provision containers on the host.

Automated Progress #

• First phase of ansible stuff started: repo

  • incus is installed but not configured yet.
  • various other packages and housekeeping things.

• incus rpm stolen and adapted from unkin

Hardware #

Current state of system #

Computers #

Network #

• Grandstream GWN7701M Grandstream 8 Port 2.5 Gigabit Unmanaged Switch with SFP+
• Grandstream GWN7701M Grandstream 8 Port 2.5 Gigabit Unmanaged Switch with SFP+

Order details #

Acquired #

Computers #

• Dell Optiplex 7080 Micro Desktop PC i7 10700T 32GB RAM 512GB SSD Win 11 (eBay link). $550.

• Dell Optiplex 7090 Micro Desktop PC i7 10700T 16GB RAM 512GB SSD Win 11 (untech link). $799.

• Dell Optiplex 7090 Micro Desktop PC i7 10700T 16GB RAM 256GB SSD Win 10 (once off eBay seller) $650.

RAM #

• 2 x Crucial DDR4 3200MHz CL22 Laptop Memory, 32GB (Amazon link). (this went in one of the Optiplexes to give it 64GB) $209.15 (inc. $42 expedited delivery).

Network #

• 2 x Grandstream GWN7701M Grandstream 8 Port 2.5 Gigabit Unmanaged Switch with SFP+ (bunnings link). $217.50.

• 1 x Cisco compatible DAC, SFP+ to SFP+, 10G, 0.5M, Twinax Cable. (4cabling link). $33.00 + $15 delivery!

• 10 x 0.5m Cat 6 cable (white) (Amazon link). $47.50.

Ordered #

RAM #

• 4 x Crucial DDR4 3200MHz CL22 Laptop Memory, 32GB (Amazon link). $93.57 each = $374.28.

Total expenditure so far: $2,895.