The Raspberry Pi is a great way to get started with Homelab! (How to Homelab Episode 4)

If you're looking for a low-cost way to enter into the world of Homelab, look no further than the Raspberry Pi! These small computers are plenty powerful to run quite a few Homelab apps, and in this video I give you my thoughts on why that is. In a future video, we'll explore running some apps on the Raspberry Pi but I wanted to create this video as an introduction to the concept of using a Pi in this way.

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[gustavgurke]

"I might keep this series going forever"
Yes, please!

[simonlanglands]

I'm actually using a raspberry pi 4b as a NAS using Open Media Vault which is fairly easy to install and can be accessed using a browser. It's great and works well.

[DigisDen]

You can also run a LXD cluster no problem. Ubuntu are supplying a custom image.

[ourkid]

I think your idea to make the Raspberry pi videos is fantastic. Excellent idea!

[ericandrews]

Yes, please keep doing the PI videos. One I would appreciate is a cluster of PIs and how to add SSD drives for storage.

[luisbperez]

My first computer was the amazing ahead of its time Commodore Amiga 1000 with a whooping 512k of ram and two floppy drives. I could multitask running the AmigaOS and two separate windows running MSDos and MacOS all at the same time. 2 megabytes of ram cost me $800 and a 80 mega hard drive another $800. I miss my A1000. Nowadays one of my Pi4 is running Pimiga with a whopping 8 gigs of ram and a 256 gig pen drive, all for less than $200 factoring the Argon Neo case, the keyboard and mouse the Pi4 and the pen drive. Not bat at all. The other Pi4 is running OpenMediaVault with an external 1 tera T5 SSD, and it’s outstanding. So far I am using it to test my MacBook Time Machine backup. I am still backing up to my main backup drive. I got plans to build a Pi cluster as well as upgrade my Pi NAS with two bigger drives to back up my macs. This little PC is amazing for its price. Outstanding video.

[rogerjenson]

I think setting up DNS that works like it would in a business would provide a good starting point for learning in a home lab. What you learn in the home lab would help you understand what happens in a business network.

[ConstructionBusiness]

I have the raspberry Pi 3 B + and I was able to install the Ubuntu Desktop, even though apparently that OS supposed to run only on Raspberry Pi 4.. At the first attemp to install it it crashed, then I tried again, and the second time it was successfuly installed.

[YouGotOptions]

You are speaking my language. I have been thinking of starting a lab to brush up on my skills/get updated

[heikokraemer]

Can't believe it, just watched episode two and three earlier today, was searching episode two again for the links … episode four released 🥳
Love your channel Jay, you're rocking it man!

[circuitsandcigars]

I setup a homelab with a few Raspberry PIs and an old laptop with Kali Linux I use to pulverize the Pis with packets lol

[aeiplanner]

Good video. Can you please have a dedicated video where you talk about how you make decisions about what to deploy on a raspberry pi vs a x86. For example, while you can deploy nextcloud and plex on a raspberry pi, it's not all that practical because the reason for setting those up is to host your own data. You can host a lot more data on an x86 platform with multi-TB raid with some redundancy.

[helvettefaensatan]

How many computers would you add to a homelab? Is that even a defined question? If any, when would you split systems to multiple units or could you work around that with VMs?

[davyvanuden]

Great idea to make a series for the raspberry pi. Maybe an option to explain how to setup a nas that can be used in a linux network.

[brentgreeff]

I signed up for a Packt subscription to read your book not knowing the connection to this channel. - have not had time to get into it though - I was thinking of buying a single Pi to get me going since I only have a Macbook right now. -
Very excited about the Turing_2 - I wanted to run full-fat kube on a turing_2 but just the control plane - I would use an x86 for worker nodes. - is this a crazy idea?
I tend to work with companies that run kube in the cloud so I want a full fat version - not k3s, - is that going to work on a Pi4?

[johnland]

These videos are inspiring me to dive back into home labbing, thank you!

[mascatrails]

Would love to see more on this subject. I've just started playing with raspberry pi's a couple months ago. I have very little demand on my network and the first pi I could get my hands on was the pi zero 2w, so I set it up with pihole and unbound running as my dns server. I just got my hands on a pi 4b 8gb so I've been trying to push into new experiments. I installed openmediavault but then ran into a bit of an issue as the hard drive I wanted to share there was already full and I realized in order to use it with omv it would have to be reformatted. And since I don't edit video I didn't see a need for a raid, so I've got a 14tb external drive on the way that will be my main NAS storage. I also have docker and portainer so I can manage my other services... for now just Jellyfin for my media. And I was curious to see what kind of speeds I was getting within my home network so I also spun up openspeedtest and had a fun time testing my devices connection to my server.

[QWACHU]

I preffer used Dell Wyse/HP ThinClient terminals :) More power and case in this price range

[ukblack]

ditto that sentiment!!! Yes, please keep it going!!!!

[jhonedoe]

I am pretty late and I just discovered your channel. Let me binge watch all those videos 😎