You’ll also need a security device like a firewall or router

This is one of the major reasons I’m moving to Proxmox. I’m going to virtualize OPNsense or pfSense and put everything behind that. I guess I should have said that I’ve host multiple dedicated servers over the decades, so from a security standpoint I’m pretty familiar. Really just trying to focus on the hardware side since this is the first time I will actually be responsible for managing and maintaining the hardware.

I have a note saved in Obsidian with every app I install on a new Mac. Unfortunately many of these are paid apps:

• AltTab: switch windows instead of apps (useful for apps with multiple windows open)
• Bartender 4: let’s you hide icons on your menubar
• BetterMouse: lots of control over mouse. Ability to inverse scroll on mouse only and leave natural on touchpad. The right click pan scrolling is great too.
• DisplayLink Manager: let’s you use more than one external monitor on non-pro machines if you have a compatible dock.
• Fantastical: great calendar app if you manage multiple calendars and need to send your availability to people external of your company.
• Greenshot: I take a ton of screenshots
• iStat Menus: puts cpu, memory, network, etc graphs on your menu bar.
• Jump Desktop: best RDP client I’ve found.
• Obsidian: not Mac specific, but an amazing note taking client.
• Raycast: expands your cmd+space with many plugins available. Probably my most used app.
• Rectangle Pro: Better window management including snapping windows to sides of screens.
• iTerm2: Much better terminal app than the stock one.

IMO ansible is over kill for my homelab. All of my docker containers live on two servers. One remote and one at home. Both are built with docker compose and are backed up along with their data weekly to both servers and third party cloud backup. In the event one of them fails I have two copies of the data and could have everything back up and running in under 30 minutes.

I also don’t like that Ansible is owned by RedHat. They’ve shown recently they have zero care for their users.

lol. ya that linkbot guy just doesn’t stop posting.