Protect the routing boundary before opening services: inventory firewall ownership, apply a deliberately scoped IPv4 forwarding and NAT lab, test negative paths, and keep a verified rollback.
Route only required workload subnets and keep host recovery outside the tunnel.
Before deploying routers and VMs, define trust boundaries, IP ownership, management recovery, and a testable rollout plan.
A staged, console-first tutorial for a Hetzner Proxmox host with two routed CHR transit networks and a separate NATed private VM LAN.
Planning a 10GbE upgrade for your homelab? From MikroTik CRS switches and SFP+ cabling to Proxmox NIC tuning, this guide covers the hardware decisions, configs, and performance optimizations you need.
Deploy containers on your MikroTik router in minutes using the new Apps catalog. Automatic firewall rules, NAT, and veth interfaces — no manual Docker setup required.
Configure VRFs on MikroTik RouterOS 7 for multi-tenant network segmentation. Step-by-step guide covering VRF creation, static routes, BGP VRF, route leaking between VRFs, firewall integration, and practical homelab topology examples.
Deploy LibreNMS in Docker for complete homelab network monitoring. SNMP autodiscovery, alert rules, and dashboard setup for MikroTik routers, Proxmox hosts, and Linux servers.
Configure MikroTik RouterOS 7 routing filters for BGP, OSPF, and policy-based routing. Real CLI examples for route maps, mangle rules, routing marks, and traffic steering.
Deploy Prometheus SNMP Exporter with Docker Compose to collect bandwidth, CPU, memory, and interface metrics from MikroTik routers and network devices. Configure SNMP v2c/v3, generate the exporter config, and visualize everything in Grafana.