https://itguyeric.com/tags/homelab/Recent content in Homelab on Eric The IT GuyHugoen-USFri, 26 Jun 2026 20:20:31 -0500https://itguyeric.com/blog/ciq-at-open-source-summit-2026-minneapolis-recap/Wed, 03 Jun 2026 12:37:02 -0500https://itguyeric.com/blog/ciq-at-open-source-summit-2026-minneapolis-recap/I spent three days on the expo floor at Open Source Summit 2026 in Minneapolis with Howard Van Der Wal and Stephen Simpson, and it was one of the better events we have done this year.https://itguyeric.com/blog/home-lab-2026-it-guy-show-023/Thu, 28 May 2026 18:00:00 -0500https://itguyeric.com/blog/home-lab-2026-it-guy-show-023/Josh from Keep It Techie joins me for a conversation about home lab ownership in 2026, what it actually costs, what it gets you, and when it stops making sense.https://itguyeric.com/blog/fedora-ep54-bootc-production/Tue, 21 Apr 2026 06:00:00 -0500https://itguyeric.com/blog/fedora-ep54-bootc-production/Episode 54 of the Fedora Podcast is out, and this one digs into something I am genuinely curious about for my own homelab: what does bootc look like when someone is actually running it day to day…https://itguyeric.com/blog/itguyshow-ep19-subscriptions/Tue, 17 Feb 2026 09:00:00 -0500https://itguyeric.com/blog/itguyshow-ep19-subscriptions/I open 2026 with a reality check on subscription fatigue and kick off a new arc on building a personal homelab.https://itguyeric.com/blog/itguyshow-ep13-became-sysadmin/Tue, 09 Sep 2025 09:00:00 -0500https://itguyeric.com/blog/itguyshow-ep13-became-sysadmin/A solo look back at how I broke into system administration and how the sysadmin role has changed over the years.https://itguyeric.com/blog/itguyshow-ep11-nixos/Tue, 12 Aug 2025 09:00:00 -0500https://itguyeric.com/blog/itguyshow-ep11-nixos/Aaron Honeycutt breaks down NixOS, declarative configuration, and how to get started without pulling your hair out.https://itguyeric.com/blog/run-ai-locally-fedora-ollama-live-ops-005/Fri, 07 Feb 2025 15:49:00 -0600https://itguyeric.com/blog/run-ai-locally-fedora-ollama-live-ops-005/I wanted to run AI locally on Fedora using an Nvidia GPU I had sitting in my Dell PowerEdge R730 — and an hour and a half later, I actually got it working. Here’s what the road looked like.https://itguyeric.com/blog/fedora-golden-image-homelab-live-ops-004/Tue, 04 Feb 2025 09:04:00 -0600https://itguyeric.com/blog/fedora-golden-image-homelab-live-ops-004/The goal was simple: build a reusable Fedora golden image homelab template I can clone whenever I need a new server. Nothing about it was simple.https://itguyeric.com/blog/rhel-hypervisor-homelab-live-ops-003/Thu, 23 Jan 2025 14:33:00 -0600https://itguyeric.com/blog/rhel-hypervisor-homelab-live-ops-003/A Dell PowerEdge R730 that’s been sitting in the rack collecting dust finally has a job: and this stream is the whole messy process of giving it one.https://itguyeric.com/blog/wordpress-migration-homelab-live-ops-002/Thu, 02 Jan 2025 09:55:00 -0600https://itguyeric.com/blog/wordpress-migration-homelab-live-ops-002/The WordPress migration homelab project that started as a quick detour turned into a two-hour deep dive — because nothing in the homelab ever goes exactly to plan.https://itguyeric.com/blog/self-hosted-matrix-server-rebuild-live-ops-001/Sun, 01 Dec 2024 09:31:00 -0600https://itguyeric.com/blog/self-hosted-matrix-server-rebuild-live-ops-001/I fired up a livestream to do something I’ve been putting off way too long: bringing my self-hosted Matrix server back from the dead, live, in real time, with no safety net.https://itguyeric.com/blog/build-a-golden-image-for-your-rhel-homelab-with-image-builder/Mon, 20 Mar 2023 08:00:00 -0500https://itguyeric.com/blog/build-a-golden-image-for-your-rhel-homelab-with-image-builder/In How I built a homelab with Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL), I laid out my plans for revamping my home lab using as many Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) and Red Hat-adjacent tools as I could get my…https://itguyeric.com/blog/how-i-built-a-homelab-with-red-hat-enterprise-linux-rhel/Wed, 15 Feb 2023 08:00:00 -0600https://itguyeric.com/blog/how-i-built-a-homelab-with-red-hat-enterprise-linux-rhel/As a recovering sysadmin, the last thing I want is to end up being technical support at home. I often tell people that I wish I had the tools available in Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) now when I…https://itguyeric.com/blog/rhelpresents-ep40-podman-home-services/Wed, 13 Jul 2022 09:00:00 -0500https://itguyeric.com/blog/rhelpresents-ep40-podman-home-services/RHEL Presents 40 on running home services with Podman.https://itguyeric.com/blog/rhelpresents-ep34-rhel-home-labs/Wed, 06 Apr 2022 09:00:00 -0500https://itguyeric.com/blog/rhelpresents-ep34-rhel-home-labs/RHEL Presents 34 on building a RHEL-based home lab.https://itguyeric.com/blog/rhelpresents-ep26-home-gaming-server-podman/Wed, 01 Dec 2021 09:00:00 -0600https://itguyeric.com/blog/rhelpresents-ep26-home-gaming-server-podman/RHEL Presents 26 building a home gaming server with Podman.https://itguyeric.com/blog/sudoshow-ep08-ask-me-anything/Mon, 26 Oct 2020 09:13:00 -0500https://itguyeric.com/blog/sudoshow-ep08-ask-me-anything/We finally pulled off our first live event for the show. Episode 8 of the Sudo Show is the recap of our first ever AMA, where folks hopped on a video call and threw questions at Brandon and me for…https://itguyeric.com/blog/las2018-travel-day/Tue, 04 Sep 2018 06:00:00 -0500https://itguyeric.com/blog/las2018-travel-day/Kansas City, Missouri to Denver Colorado, 1 Interstate, 609 miles, 8 hours of podcasts… Nothing but rain! However, the nice thing about this road trip was it gave me time to consider a few things…https://itguyeric.com/blog/ask-noah-28-linux-powered-party/Mon, 02 Oct 2017 09:00:00 -0500https://itguyeric.com/blog/ask-noah-28-linux-powered-party/A guest spot on Ask Noah Show 28, an early appearance talking Linux, open source, and homelabs.