Intel NUC Proxmox & Linode Homelab

Experimenting with baremetal meeting cloud virtualizatoin

About

• Setup an INTEL NUC machine running Proxmox on baremetal.

• Hardened Proxmox installation and configured private subnets for virtualized hosts.

• Setup Linode OpenVPN instance, hardened the host, configured Linode Firewall rules, and setup private subnets for individual VPN profiles.

• Used OpenVPN host to secure communications between each virtualized host running on the Proxmox server.

• Configured a Kali virtual machine on the Proxmox server with an installation of Nessus and a secured/hardened remote desktop configuration to allow running vulnerability scans while away from home.

Postmortem

• Learned a LOT doing this. But it also threw me down the homelab rabbit hole and now my wallet hates me.