Welcome to Ehsan Homelab
Basic to Enterprise grade Homelab
For IT or Telco industry use
This is the place where you embark on your journey to building your very own homelab. Together, we will explore the intricacies of research and development in the homelab environment and rise above the challenges of setting up a cutting-edge homelab.
Latest Blog Posts
Tips, walkthroughs, and tutorials from my homelab experience.
Centralized Certificate-Renewal Monitoring & AI-Assisted Remediation
Managing localized TLS and SSH host certificate renewals across distributed nodes often meant fragmented observability. While individual nodes executed auto-renewals and triggered localized alerts on failure, there was no single source of truth to track historical outcomes, analyze failure trends, or view overall fleet health in a single pane of glass.
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Monitoring and Observability System
Verified a homelab monitoring and observability stack combining LibreNMS, Prometheus, Grafana, Alertmanager, Loki, Headlamp, and Hermes AI agent support. The design uses AI to summarize evidence and suggest next steps, while keeping final operational decisions under human control.
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How to choose the best 5G system for the lab
This is one of the most vital decisions that which 5G system would be the best match to our lab. is it Free5GC, Open5GS or Magma. You could find the way I selected Free5GC for the lab in this post.
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Designing Two-Tier network security
How to design an enterprise-grade two-tier network security and its requirements
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Minimum to Enterprise grade hardware
We discuss the hardware requirements in 3 packages including minimum, small-size and enterprise-grade.
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VPN designing
Having remote access to this lab is vital to maintain it and for show casing. This blog explain the best practice of designing and deploying a VPN server and client architecture.
Read moreAbout Me
Experienced telecommunication professional with over 14 years in customer units, customer support and R&D. Proficient in Cybersecurity, 5G SA and NSA, Cloud native, Packet Core, Kubernetes, OpenStack, OpenShift, IP networks, SDI & SDN, and Virtualization & Cloudification. Extensive experience in IT and Telco cybersecurity, E2E Design, Delivery and Pre-Sales.
My Certificates
- 5G expert, Ericsson 2022
- 5G Association, Ericsson (2020)
- CCIE R&S
- AI and Automation Expert, Ericsson
- Ericsson Security Master
- Machine Learning - Coursera
- Cloud Solution Designing
- EPC Advance, Ericsson
- EPC, Huawei
- Team Management, Ericsson
- Microsoft Network Security
- CCNP Security
- Cloud Native Expert
- Linux LPIC-1
- MCSE +Security
- MCSD VB6
- MCSE, MCSA, MCTS
- CCNP R&S, Troubleshooting
- CCNA R&S
About My Homelab
My homelab consists of different elements to support my goals of practicing virtualization, containerization, hardware testing, secure design, modern cybersecurity architecture, and enterprise-grade monitoring. Through the blog posts, I showcase the outcomes and solutions I tested—many of which were never officially verified.