The past months have been crazy since the induction of my homelab. There have been so much reading here and there and a bulk of what used to be my idle time has since been allotted to technical research and self-development. My writing has not been able to keep up either because there have been a lot of changes and modifications I’ve been doing from the get-go.
The network just reached the fourth month mark and it’s already about to undergo a somewhat major re-design....
Install K3s with Calico and disable Traefik
For those who want to use Calico with k3s instead of Flannel, I am sharing here the steps I followed. For the project I am working on, I had to re-install k3s with Calico upon learning that flannel works on layer-2, whereas I need layer-3 routing for BGP. I am not sure if there’s a way to advertise BGP with flannel as the CNI but it looks like Calico already runs it natively....
Install Ubuntu Server 22.04 & GNS3 on Unraid
Unraid is a hypervisor by itself. So aside from just running docker containers, you can also spawn VMs. I wanted to install Ubuntu Server 22.04 so I could run the GNS3 remote server on it.
Ubuntu Server Installation You can download the Ubuntu iso image from this page. It’s either you download to your local machine or using Unraid with the help of the CLI or some docker app.
While waiting for the download to complete....
Moving files within Unraid
Moving files within Unraid One of the first questions I asked myself is how can I transfer files from an external drive to one of the shares in my array. This is so I can use that external SSD as another cache pool in my Unraid setup. And SpaceInvaderOne saves the day again. I summarized his video below. Follow at your own risk or better yet just watch SpaceInvaderOne’s video here....
New NAS and Homelab setup using Unraid
Just very recently I managed to assemble my second NAS — a beefed up version of my first one back in 2012. I decided to settle on an 11th-gen Intel system.
Motherboard: Asrock H570M-ITX/AC CPU: Intel Core i7-11700 RAM: Kingston Fury DDR4 3200MT/s 16GB x 2 Drives: 2x 8 TB WD Red Plus, 2x 1TB Samsung 980 NVMe, 1x 500GB Samsung 860 EVO PSU: Fractal Design ION SFX-L 500W 80PLUS Gold Case: Jonsbo N1 Below you can find the steps I followed to install unRAID v6....
