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About VirtLabs

VirtLabs is a technical blog covering virtualization, Kubernetes, self-hosted services, and enterprise infrastructure — from homelab to production. The focus is on practical, hands-on guides written from real deployments, not theory.

Topics include:

• Kubernetes — Talos Linux, Cilium networking, Longhorn storage, Helm deployments
• Self-Hosted Services — Running your own infrastructure instead of renting it from cloud providers
• Networking — MikroTik, VLANs, Tailscale, Cloudflare Tunnels, zero-trust access
• Security — Container hardening, network policies, disk encryption, audit logging
• Enterprise Infrastructure — Proxmox, Active Directory, Entra ID, Hyper-V, Windows Server

Every guide on this site is written from a working deployment. If it's here, it's been built, broken, debugged, and rebuilt.

About Perrin

I'm a senior infrastructure engineer with deep hands-on experience across networking (MikroTik, Arista, Cisco), virtualization (Proxmox, Ceph), containerization (Docker, Kubernetes), and Linux administration. By day I work in MSP and enterprise environments. By night I run an extensive homelab that serves as both a learning platform and a production environment for the tools I write about here.

The homelab includes a 6-node bare-metal Talos Kubernetes cluster, multiple Proxmox hosts, a full MikroTik network stack, and more self-hosted services than I'd care to admit. It's where every post on this site gets tested before it gets published.

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