I wanted to share my #homelab current goals with the community here. I'm hoping to see what others are looking to #selfhost and learn with their lab.

I would like to learn the ins and outs of Zero Trust deployments including #SSO, various #IdPs, LDAP, #FIDO2 to replace #TOTP, Cert based Auth options, and LB/Proxying. I want to have a solid and secure load balancing / proxying portal to access my lab assets. Hopefully in a way that could be authenticated properly on each request. I know this can be cut many ways but I would like to determine my preference by testing many combinations to deeply learn the different approaches and limitations.

AI/ML - Looking to do a few things here. I want to run a variant of #StableDiffusion so I no longer have a cap on renderings like with #OpenAI. I want to run a #selfhosted equivalent of #Github #Copilot. Also would like to run something like #GPT-3 text generation and summarization in the lab. Lastly I want to containerize #Tesseract with a light frontend for image #OCR for general use.

Cluster capabilities: I have a long term plan of comparing the features of #Proxmox against #vCenter for lab use. I used to run standalone #ESXi for my lab and that worked fine except for the obvious limits of a single host lab. I wanted to learn to better deploy clusters and see how affordably you can utilize more advanced features. I have been happy with Proxmox but still have some things to work out. Eventually I will rebuild as a #vCenter cluster.

#IaC #scripting #programming - Looking to get more mature about my #CICD approach and understanding. Currently running #Terraform to deploy Prox VMs, have #Gitea, and post-deployment I use #Ansible. Looking to have a much more advanced build and test process.

I'll post more in another goals thread: Re: #Storage #NAS #Backup #OS #Networking #Containers #Kubernetes #AWS

I'd really like to hear what you're doing, big or small to use your lab to learn and experiment.