What’s up, what’s down and what are you not sure about?
Let us know what you set up lately, what kind of problems you currently think about or are running into, what new device you added to your homelab or what interesting service or article you found.
Personally I’m finally reaping the fruits of my labour and enjoy my stable homelab without doing much. One node went down recently and the other took over until I restarted so I was not in a hurry to fix things. Enjoying family time and only running updates that aren’t automated (yet). I’m about to dig a bit deeper into logging, probably setting up central log collection like Loki at some point, but not yet.
I looked into VyOS to replace my main firewall/IPS system (IPfire) with, as I would like to switch to running it in a VM, which is not recommended with IPfire. Seems pretty good so far with the new gratis semi-stable Stream releases.
And I set up Unified Push notifications with my Ejabberd server. Works great.
Any particular reason you are looking for a virtualized VM? Just to be less reliant on a single piece of hardware?
That and power savings, since I have sufficient capacity to run it on one of my main servers with an extra NIC to pass through.
Opnsense is also great, and has a webUI for easier setup.
That is what I started with originally, and I don’t want to go back. The WebUI is super convoluted and for anything other than the basics it does more harm than good in my experience… and well, FreeBSD is just not my thing.