Virtual to the Core

For a while now, all the Terraform/Ansible automation for my homelab has run from WSL on my Windows laptop.

When I first built out DNS for my home lab, I did what most people do: I spun up two Ubuntu VMs, installed BIND 9, and put Webmin on top so I could manage zones and records comfortably through a GUI instead of hand-editing zone files over SSH.

In the last few months I’ve worked to deeply understand Encryption, how it works, how KMS and KMIP work, and I also ended up writing two deep technical blog posts you can read here: Reviving a dead open source project: fixing PyKMIP for modern Veeam integ…

A few years ago I started to use Let’s Encrypt to automate the certificate creation and their renewals for many of my systems, mainly my lab used for Veeam Cloud Connect.

After years using mainly VMware vSphere, I started lately to learn new hypervisors.

In my previous post, I explained why PyKMIP is a perfect choice for a homelab KMS server, and I told the story of the adventure I embarked on to fix its old and broken code.

When I started looking for a free, self-hosted KMIP server to use in my homelab, PyKMIP seemed like the obvious choice.

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With the introduction of Veeam Backup and Replication v13, Veeam Powershell has become available for Linux environments, initially only for Rocky Linux 9 and RHEL 9.6.

While I was migrating this website from Wordpress to Hugo, I immediately started to think how to improve its usage, in terms of both new content creation and publishing.

In my previous post I’ve explained my migration from Wordpress to Hugo.

Migrating to Hugo often brings a common frustration: your image links, perfectly valid for the generated site, appear as broken icons in local Markdown editors like VS Code and Obsidian.

In the last years I thought multiple times about switching from Wordpress to something easier to use and manage, but I never seriously looked into it because of a mix of lazyness and fear to break my blog after so many years (I just checked, my first blog…

Back in 2023, I automated my home lab starting with vSphere templates.

In my homelab I historically used a couple of MS Windows Server machines to run DNS and authentication services.