Building the Fox Den
Hello world! permalink
Like everyone learning a new programming language for the first time, this blog wouldn't be complete without a Hello World post. Hopefully some of you will have browsed this site somewhat to get a feel of what's going on, but if not - Welcome! A background of the site and myself can be found here, so I won't dive too deeply into that. For now, let's get to business!
The Fox Den permalink
The Fox Den is the latest iteration of many previously failed homelab attempts. This time, complete with 'new' hardware, a plan and a plethora of enterprise-grade tools behind me (Thank you Red Hat!).
Unfortunately, I've already performed most of the setup of the lab, so I won't be listing everything in detail in this post, I'll break those out into separate posts and link them here as and when they're done, but I thought I'd give you a tour of what hardware and services I'm rocking at the moment!
Services permalink
Write-ups coming soon
Knot DNS/Unbound DNS/ Knot DNSKnot-Resolver/ Knot Resolver- ISC DHCP Server
- UniFi Controller
- Libvirt
- Ansible Automation Platform (Soon)
- Red Hat IDM (Soon)
- Rancher k3s (Soon)
Roke permalink
| Info | Purpose: Bare-metal Hypervisor |
| ---------: | ------------------------------------------------ |
| Model: | HP DL360 G7 |
| OS: | Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.2 |
| CPU: | 2x Intel Xeon x5650 @ 2.6GHz |
| Memory: | 24GB ECC DDR3 @ 1333MHz (6x4GB) |
| Storage: | 2x DG146A4960 (146GB - 10K - SAS) |
| NIC: | 2x HP NC382i Dual Port Gigabit (4 Ports Total) |
| ---------- | ------------------------------------------------ |
Archmage permalink
| Info | Purpose: Bare-metal Hypervisor |
| ---------: | ------------------------------------------------ |
| Model: | HP DL360 G7 |
| OS: | Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.2 |
| CPU: | 2x Intel Xeon x5650 @ 2.6GHz |
| Memory: | 24GB ECC DDR3 @ 1333MHz (6x4GB) |
| Storage: | 2x DG146A4960 (146GB - 10K - SAS) |
| NIC: | 2x HP NC382i Dual Port Gigabit (4 Ports Total) |
| ---------- | ------------------------------------------------ |
Gont (Still to arrive) permalink
| Info | Purpose: Desktop Workstation |
| -----------: | ------------------------------------------------ |
| Model: | Custom-Built. |
| OS: | Windows 10 20.04 |
| CPU: | AMD Ryzen 9 3900 |
| Memory: | 16GB Corsair Vengeance DDR4 3200 White RGB |
| Storage: | 1TB Sabrent Rocket M.2 PCI-E Gen 4 |
| - | 256GB Sabrent Rocker M.2 PCI-E Gen 3 |
| - | 128GB Kingston HyperX Sata 3 6GBPS SSD |
| - | 1TB Samsung Spinmaster 5600RPM Sata 3 HDD. |
| Motherboard | Asus ROG Strix X570-E Gaming |
| GPU | Gigabyte RX570 Gaming 4GB. |
| GPU | [On arrival] Asus GeForce RTX 3080 TUF Gaming |
| ------------ | ------------------------------------------------ |
Ged permalink
| Info | Purpose: Daily driver laptop |
| ---------: | ------------------------------------------------ |
| Model: | Retina MacBook Pro (2015) |
| OS: | MacOS Catalina 10.15.5 |
| CPU: | Intel Core i7-4770HQ @ 2.2GHz |
| Memory: | 16GB DDR3 @ 1600MHz (2x8GB) |
| Storage: | 256GB Apple SATA SSD |
| NIC: | Apple Airport Card |
| ---------- | ------------------------------------------------ |
Master-Namer permalink
| Info | Purpose: DNS + DHCP Server |
| ---------: | ------------------------------------------------ |
| Model: | Libvirt/KVM Host |
| OS: | Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.2 |
| CPU: | 2x vCPU |
| Memory: | 4GiB |
| Storage: | 20GiB |
| NIC: | Bridge-to-LAN br0 -> enp3s0f1 |
| ---------- | ------------------------------------------------ |
Master-Chanter permalink
| Info | Purpose: Unifi Network Controller |
| ---------: | ------------------------------------------------ |
| Model: | Libvirt/KVM Host |
| OS: | Ubuntu Server 20.04 |
| CPU: | 1x vCPU |
| Memory: | 4GiB |
| Storage: | 25GiB |
| NIC: | Bridge-to-LAN br0 -> enp3s0f1 |
| ---------- | ------------------------------------------------ |