Do you have a homelab? Why and what's your setup?

Talking about home labs: I own a Bresser Biolux NV [1] and I keep several hay infusions on my desk right now. The results are better than I expected. I can look for hours at multicellular organisms and bacteria are visible. Also I own a spectral sensor [2] for very primitive NIR spectroscopy analysis. But this sensor is not really that impressive. Don't expect too much from this spectral sensor. ;)

[1] - https://www.bresser.de/en/Microscopes-Magnifiers/BRESSER-Bio...

[2] - https://www.sparkfun.com/products/14351

Yes, I talk about my RPi builds in this guide - https://blog.alexellis.io/self-hosting-kubernetes-on-your-ra...

I do like to always have 1-2 Intel NUC headless Linux boxes for running containers and K8s.

I run my sponsors portal using an RPi3 and an inlets tunnel. The microservices are served with faasd - it gets light traffic, but is basically free. http://github.com/openfaas/faasd

Yes, because most companies won’t let you play around and learn Kubernetes or Hadoop on their enterprise cluster. I have 3 RPi4s with 500GB SSDs running full blown k8s with my own privately hosted Docker repo.

Not quite, but I do have grand plans for one. Both for my main home network along with several sub and separate networks for several projects along with simulated retro and other non-IP networks. Right now I'm sitting around with ISDN phones, switches, routers, old network protocol analyzers and terminals and even an old CMTS!

yes - it was for testing OpenStack setups at home (simulating multiple clusters), and general services. But I'm doing more cloud stuff now, so its mostly turned off. I had way too much gear :-P

1 IBM half rack

8 Dell blades

8 HP blades

3 x 24 port managed switches (2 for rack, 1 for house)

3 x Odroid H2s

3 x windows desktops (games, and ssh to servers)

? x laptops (tons of old laptops )

? x tablets (ipad/android most used is a lenovo yoga tab.)

2 3d printers

1 gpu miner (Now doing folding@home covid stuff)

I think I might have a hoarding problem :-P

edit: fix formating