Hello World - and welcome to Sysblob.com, a website dedicated to homelabbing. I’ve been a fan of tinkering and computers for a while now, and I’ve made a career of it as a Linux Administrator. Howe...

What is Gitlab? Gitlab is a source control management application very similar to Github. The advantage of Gitlab is it can be self-hosted so you can maintain your code locally. Requirements: ...

The usefulness of a homelab can be greatly extended by giving yourself or others access to it remotely. In this article we will take a look at some of the ways to manage your homelab on the go. Ty...

Emulators have been around as long as I can remember. In short, emulators act as virtual gaming systems which give you the ability to play old systems like NES and Sega on your home computer. Emula...

Semaphore is an open-source browser based GUI for Ansible. Semaphore has a slick interface and executes playbooks by reading them directly from a Github repository you give it credentials to. I wou...

Ansible, is an agentless python-based automation tool. It works with playbooks and inventory lists in order to execute state changes based on system information it pulls before execution called fac...

The Linux command line will always hold a special place in my heart. I love the black screen. I love the rolling waves of text when updating packages. I love the command syntax that can be written ...

One of the immediate burning questions I had when I began spinning up virtual machines was how can I automate more of the manual installation of the operating system? Clicking the same mundane opti...

Apache Guacamole is a browser based experience for remote SSH and RDP access. In a nut shell you run a self-hosted server which you connect to via a web GUI. From within this site you can add conne...

Docker is a great straight forward way of using containerization. I’m a big fan, and use Docker to pretty much use Docker to run most of my lab. Refer to the Table of Contents if you are looking f...

I’ve spent a lot of time building websites. When I was youngster I remember the thrill of logging into free template providers like Geocities or Angelfire that made it so easy to bring your idea to...

Bookstack is a self-hosted wiki that makes editing and storing your documentation in an organized and secure fashion fast, efficient, and easy. Link: https://www.bookstackapp.com/ Refer to the Ta...

Plex is a media management and streaming service akin to a self-hosted netflix. While Plex by itself is great, it’s common to design something around plex for the downloading and obtaining of media...