I left my bulky Linux PC at my hometown. Two months later I was running Ollama on it and querying llama3.1 from another city — all over Tailscale, no port forwarding, no public exposure.

It's been quite a while since I started with homelab-ing. I have already posted about Monitoring My HomeLab With Prometheus and Grafana, but in this post, I wanted to take things to the next level and write about what I've been doing recently. I have segmented this post into 3 parts. Firstly I talk about how it all started, a brief history. Secondly, I talk about how I set up the environment and a brief overview of the services running within. At last, I will talk about my future plans concerning homelab.

I had known about Vagrant from before. However, it was not until I was doing a Kubernetes course that I encountered it again. The instructor was spinning up and shutting down VMs like a piece of cake. This made me rethink about virtualization again. I have been configuring Virtualbox till now with GUI, and it's pretty cumbersome to download ISOs, configure network, storage, and whatnot. While it is good for beginners to see what's going on, it created a drive in me to steer away from it. But the time has changed now. Introducing **Vagrant**.