Replacing the stock fans on UniFi Dream Machine and 24 Port Switch

A walkthrough on replacing the loud stock fans in UniFi Dream Machine and 24 Port PoE Switch with quiet Noctua fans

March 27, 2024 · 3 min · Jim Angel

Wildcard SSL certificates for free with Let's Encrypt

Obtain free wildcard SSL certificates from Let’s Encrypt for flexibility in your homelab. Covers domain registration, DNS setup, and certificate generation using Certbot in Docker.

March 26, 2024 · 3 min · Jim Angel

Monitoring air quality: Awair vs. Airthings vs. Aranet vs. AirGradient in Home Assistant

A detailed list of pros and cons, including comparison chart, of air quality monitors that integrate with Home Assistant.

January 6, 2024 · 8 min · Jim Angel

VMware homelab [Part 3]: How to configure vSphere networking and storage

The third post of a VMware homelab series covering the configuration for networking and storage in a vSphere 7 cluster

February 6, 2023 · 13 min · Jim Angel

VMware homelab [Part 2]: How to install a vSphere cluster at home

The second post of a VMware homelab series covering the installation of vSphere 8

February 4, 2023 · 6 min · Jim Angel

VMware homelab [Part 1]: Introduction & Considerations

What to consider when building a VMware homelab like how many hosts, networking, storage, and more! This is the first post of a series that follows the complete process when building a multi-host VMware cluster at home

February 1, 2023 · 15 min · Jim Angel

How to install and use VMware's PowerCLI on a M1 Mac

VMware’s PowerCLI tool now supports mac and Linux in version 13. I’ll walk through how to configure and use PowerCLI on a MacBook Pro

January 25, 2023 · 6 min · Jim Angel

How to automate a bare metal Ubuntu 22.04 LTS installation

Automate the complete installation of Ubuntu 22.04 LTS on physical servers using cloud-init and USBs

September 19, 2022 · 19 min · Jim Angel

How to automate Ubuntu 22.04 LTS on a Raspberry Pi 4

Automate the complete install of Ubuntu 22.04 LTS on a Raspberry Pi 4 using cloud-init

September 19, 2022 · 4 min · Jim Angel

Auto-updating and self-healing GitOps Kubernetes monster

Self-hosted, Self-healing, Self-updating, Self-patching Kubernetes madness

June 20, 2021 · 10 min · Jim Angel