RunAs Radio My Home Lab
Apr 1, 2026
A tour of a seaside home lab with redundancy strategies for unreliable power and internet. Deep dives into networking, rack-level infrastructure, and a 12-node Kubernetes cluster. Coverage of diverse orchestration platforms, liquid-cooled AI HGX nodes, and 400Gb fabrics. Homespun automation, telemetry for everything from cameras to a puppy, plus experiments with solar, generators, and wildlife-detecting AI.
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Keep Local Backups And A Test Cluster
- Do build multiple layers of local infrastructure: NAS, backups, and on-prem compute for resilience and experimentation.
- Richard kept local copies of cloud data and expanded into a 12-node Kubernetes cluster using repurposed servers for testing workloads.
Enterprise Networking Scales To Home Labs
- High-speed home networking benefits from enterprise-grade aggregation and mixed lane speeds for distribution.
- Richard runs Ubiquiti campus aggregation with 100Gb backbone, 25Gb distribution, and 10Gb to racks for varied workloads.
Polyglot Virtualization For Learning
- Richard runs many hypervisors and orchestrators side-by-side to learn strengths and tradeoffs.
- His stack includes ESXi, Hyper-V, a Proxmox cluster, Kubernetes, Nomad, OpenStack, Azure Stack HCI, and even Docker Swarm for experimentation.