Prashant’s Nook

Greetings Tinkerers! In the past couple of months I’ve been tinkering with some cool ways of modifying my homelab and writing k8s operators (work stuff!). Alright so … as y’all know I am a huge music addict… (cough!.) … and my Spotify Premium membership just ended ( forgot to create a mandate … I guess a good thing? ), while looking to renew I was wondering why don’t I just self host something which can replace spotify for me....

Happy new year 2K25 4 months into 2025 My first public blogpost for 2025! Alot of things have happened in the past 4 months, Firstly I got into a new organisation! My very first job change. I am still awaiting full onboarding as of time of writing this blogpost. With the new organisation being work from office, I will be experiencing new things this year Moving out of my parents house!...

Greetings guardians, I gave a talk at Microsoft! in collaboration with MJCET University in Hyderabad. I was recommended by Shahbaaz Khan to present a talk on Software Development Lifecycle, Essentially a talk on Devops and a brief overview on how things are done in Devops-yy world. I had invited my fellow Devops underling Lekha Grace, Slides Google Drive PrashantNook CDN #TODO

I have been homelabbing since a very long time, ever since I got my Raspberry Pi 2. 2017 - Oldest photo I’ve gotten of my Pi 2 It ran the default rasbian (not even minimal version [2017]) all stared off with a basic SAMBA server installation for a spare HDD I have lying around and then found out about more and more amazing self hosted tools. Then we found out about Oracle Free Tier which gave us access to a beefy 1 x 4 Core, 24G, Ampere Arm CPU , 2 x 1 Core, 1G, AMD EPYC CPU instance, with a combined Storage of roughly 150G....