I needed our dev and testers at KopiRun's to access certain resources securely without having to expose those resources publicly. I think the default choice for organisations would be to use VPNs and wireguard is a very popular choice these days due…

Continuing from part 1 of the setup. Solve GitLab Runner Setup Install Helm Prepare the cluster to connect The following cluster certificate connection type is deprecated and disabled by default in GitLab 15.0. Connecting the cluster to GitLab is not…

I was looking back at my Universal Server post and realised I mentioned I would talk more about the services that I run in my HomeLab but never did. I pretty much FORGOT. Well, here it is now. Services OPNsense PowerChute Network Shutdown (PCNS…

This has been on my todo list for a while now for KopiRun. I had been using Azure VMs as GitLab runners, but we were trying to keep them under a certain cost, and unfortunately it was not feasible for us to keep the runners on Azure at the kind of…

So after using this setup for a good year or so, I have some updates in terms of both hardware and solutions to some of the problems that I was facing with the initial build. Changes Original hardware KEB: Tecware Phantom Elite + Gateron Greens VID…

I had some spare 10TB drives due to a previous server build failing and not panning out. I looked at the current available pre-built solutions on the market like Synology and QNAP but was unsatisfied with the pricing especially when you factored in…

This server build has been going on for a while now... like 2 years from planning to what I consider "complete", and it's mainly because I have a list of objectives that I would've liked to achieved with this particular build. This has had me…

I've been working on this tiny turned big sized project on running both MacOS and Windows on a single workstation at the same time. There were a lot of challenges with this build from various usability issues to issues that I faced with my personal…

So I finally had some time and decided to quickly populate the lab page with the equipment that I currently have in my server rack. You'll notice that Lab 2 is still empty, and it will be so until I can head down to the location to record the…