One of the questions I get often is: so I built my home lab. What do I do with it? And it’s one of my favorite questions to answer. Every week I host several live Q&A calls in KubeCraft. And this question comes up regularly. During these mentorship sessions, I teach my students a process that you won't find anywhere else. So instead of just giving you a list of apps to run, I’ll share my whole thought process so you can decide for yourself. I think that will serve you better than a list of apps. ​ But before we jump in, I should let you know that I'm only accepting 10 new students in December. If you want to get direct mentorship from me, CLICK HERE to claim your spot. I'll help you land a remote, 6-figure DevOps job so you can live the life of your dreams. ​ What is a home lab anyway? First of all, let’s think about what a home lab is. One big misconception people have is that home labs need to be big server racks with thousands of dollars of equipment. They think you need to run 5 node Kubernetes clusters before you can even call it a home lab. This is completely false. My home lab started with a ThinkPad T430. An old laptop that was gathering dust in a closet. I installed Linux on there, and ran Linkding in a Docker container. I was so proud. I had my own little application that I could run. I was self-hosting. And it all started from there. ​ Solve Problems You Already Have When I get the question, “what should I run?”, my first reaction is always to solve problems you already have in your life. The reason why I ended up self-hosting Linkding was because I was switching browsers so often. I would sometimes have three different browsers running. One on my phone, one on my laptop, and one on my main workstation. I needed a place to store my bookmarks that was independent of the browser. And after using Raindrop for a while, I somehow discovered Linkding. I’ve been using it for over 3 years now.

After watching @Mischa van den Burg newest video about Windows, I'm honestly thinking about reaching out to friends and family to offer to install Linux for them 😄 Everybody wins, right? Well, except Windows 🤦‍♀️ More practice for me 😁 Should I ask around? 👇

Today I had a small realization that might be useful for anyone getting into Linux. When you’re trying to pick your first distro or you just want to see what other ones offer, you don’t actually need to install them directly on your machine. Instead, you can just set up a simple virtual machine on your PC, test a few distros, and see which one fits your style. Personally, I never thought about doing that. Jumping straight into Arch seemed the most fun way because I enjoy the idea of building everything from scratch. But if you’re just starting out and want to test distros, setting up a VM first can save you a lot of time and make the choice easier. Just wanted to share this little tip in case it helps someone out here so you can be like the guy in the gif hahah

Hello friends, Can I ask you a question? What is your main goal? What are you focusing on right now? 1. Share your goal below 2. Find someone with a similar goal and reply to him or her Let's support each other in this community! 🫡 Mischa