Introduction#

This is a my blog site introductory post!

Hey there! Chances are if you’re reading this, you are at least a little bit curious as to what I am doing here. This blog is to document the process of me creating a homelab! This is an endeavor to increase my technological independence and my own competency in an increasingly online world.

What do I mean by that exactly? A few things really. One, I wanted a space where I could practice information security, putting into practice the multitude of techniques and concepts I am learning every day in a practical way. Now there are many ways to do that, so why create a homelab? My reason being is that I wanted my work to do a few things. The first, is to develop my overall technological competency. I have lived on computers for most of my life, but never really delved deep into them until the last few years. So I decided to use an old computer I had and set it up as my own personal server, that I would learn to develop and keep secure as I did it.

So to start, I chose to use the Fedora 41 linux distro. While there are many distributions I could choose from, I chose Fedora for a few reasons: While not the most beginner friendly, fedora offers a relatively streamlined user interface that has ease of use. This is important because while I am not using the GUI of Fedora to operate the lab, should I run into any unforeseen circumstances that might require me to, I will not be completely lost.

You might notice a common theme in these posts, 
where I try and build as many redundancies as I possibly can think of into
everything I build. And it often is not enough! The mistakes still come!
But that is the beauty of learning,
there is always more to learn.

I chose to make this project a little more technically challenging for myself, by pledging to do as much as I can through a CLI (Command Line Interface) as I could. I wanted to simulate working in a setting where I do not have physical access to a machine.

I figured that if I learn this way, by using the terminal and forcing myself to become familiar with working in the terminal, and with linux, that could only benefit me in a multitude of ways for myself and my career down the road (Let me tell you though, the learning curve sure was steep. Even now at the time of this post I only consider myself as being able to crawl when it comes to working with the capabilities that linux offers).

Not only do I consider it to be the correct decision, it has also been an incredibly fun one. Working within the terminal on my homelab and websites that I am creating now (including this one) has been so much more fun than I expected! But back to the matter at hand.

So there it was. My decision being made, a machine waiting for me to use it, and almost endless possibilities in front of me. Here begins my journey.

To be continued in the next post!

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