Home Lab GOALS 2023 - Server, networking, containers, Kubernetes, and more! @VirtualizationHowto
Home Lab GOALS 2023 - Server, networking, containers, Kubernetes, and more!  @VirtualizationHowto
Uploaded January 2023 | Updated September 2026, 2 weeks ago
Thinking about goals in your home lab in 2023, what changes are you thinking about making? What hardware are you going to introduce this year? Software? New technology solutions? What about introducing cloud technologies to the mix? In this video I discuss with you guys my home lab goals in 2023 and what I look to do and accommplish with the lab environment this year.

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Introduction to home lab goals in 2023 - 0:00
Looking at my goal of refreshing my VMware vSAN cluster - 0:59
Spec'ing out servers for the hardware refresh - 1:34
What are the sweet spots with servers available? - 2:00
My recent upgrade to a Palo Alto PA440 - 2:24
Thinking about upgrading to 25 Gb/sec switches - 2:50
Update on cleaning up and rearranging my network and server rack - 3:45
Thinking about software updates this coming year and what I want to introduce - 4:16
Expanding my Linux footprint in the home lab this year - 4:41
Other Linux distros to play around with - 5:24
Looking at more monitoring and observability in the home lab in 2023 - 6:03
Looking at new technologies and solutions - 6:23
Continuing the journey of modernization of the home lab - 6:30
I want to play around with Hashicorp Nomad for orchestrating containers - 6:52
What would I like to do differently in the home lab? 7:14
Microservices and containerization - 7:38
Taking applications running in full virtual machines nad migrating to containers - 7:51
More automation in the home lab coming up in 2023 - 8:12
Using automation tools like Terraform, Ansible, and committing Infrastructure as Code - 8:36
Looking at integrating more cloud technologies into the home lab - 8:57
Businesses are currently facing many of the same challenges with hybrid cloud technologies - 9:22
Concluding thoughts on my home lab goals in 2023 - 9:45

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