| I would agree with this. While I run Plex and/or miniflux or as he put an OTS Nas, I also use it to provision Luns, or test things that I may consider for work. Here are a few of the deployments that originated in my home lab but ended up in a prod environment at work 1. Replacing hardware load balancers with haproxy. (This started with a few options, including Nginx, and some others. But haproxy and it’s web management, csv monitoring gave me the best capability to integrate at work) 2. Vpn appliances for covid. I was able to whip up 2-4 scalable VPN appliances based on openvpn in “1/2 a day” at work because I was able to flesh out most of that at home. 3. Vulnerability scanners 4. HIDS security tools. In the end we went with a OTS vendor but options like ossec, wazuh etc were ruled out in a lab. 5. Ansible (over some of the other options) 6. Squid for reporting on the HIDS mentioned above. There’s probably more. I know there is. And point blank a lot of this stuff had mock ups done at home because I have full control and am not subject to auditors etc when evaluating them. Whereas I do thst at work and I have to do more work writing up justification or change requests etc. it’s just easier at home. All that said I try to keep the house as flat and plain Jane as I can. |