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I work in ops and DevOps by day, and I self-host at home. The two feed each other: what I do professionally becomes something smaller at home — and the home lab is the cheap place to learn the tools your job will use later.

You rarely need the newest or the most expensive thing. A second-hand box, a free tier and a patient evening beat a top-of-the-line lab — and the skills you build on that box are the very ones that show up in job ads.