Homelab review of CY2024:
- Completely phased out Ubuntu machines
- Replaced CentOS machines with RHEL (Red Hat Enterprise Linux)
- Upgraded all systems to latest RHEL9/latest Debian 12
- Migrated 90% of Git repositories from GitLab to Forgejo
- Migrated Container Hosts from Docker to Podman with Quadlets and AutoUpdate
- Automated maintanance via Ansible
- Lifecycle Management and Patching via Red Hat Satellite
- Overlay VPN between systems via WireGuard Headscale/Tailscale
Total stats:
- 2 Proxmox VE Virtualization hosts
- 20 Virtual Machines
- 15x RHEL9, 1x Fedora 41, 4x FreeBSD 14.1
- 2 Bare Metal Servers
- Debian GNU/Linux 12 for Nextcloud, E-Mail and file-storage
- Proxmox Backup-Server for Backup
- 2 Cloud Instances
- RHEL9 as my Container Host (Podman)
- Debian GNU/Linux 12 for burningboard.net Mastodon instance
- One Raspberry PI with Debian 12 for Home-Assistant
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