Homelab Shield: Disaster Recovery & Cybersecurity Hardening for Homelabs: A Practical Guide to Zero-Trust Security, Proxmox HA, Firewall Orchestration

By Juno Darian

Homelab Shield: Disaster Recovery and Cybersecurity Hardening for Homelabs
Protect your homelab like a professional-whether you built it for passion, experimentation, or personal infrastructure. Homelab Shield is the definitive guide that transforms everyday hobbyist setups into resilient, enterprise-grade environments capable of surviving ransomware attacks, hardware failures, data corruption, and human error.

This book walks you step-by-step through the systems, tools, and strategies used in real production environments and adapts them for personal labs-without complexity, fluff, or filler. You learn how to design Zero-Trust networks, implement immutable backups, harden containers and virtual machines, automate recovery processes, and validate your entire disaster-recovery strategy with confidence.

What You Will Learn
- How to build a secure, Zero-Trust-aligned homelab network.
- Configuring and operating ZFS snapshots, replication, and resilient storage pools.
- Designing high-availability clusters with Proxmox, failover planning, and node recovery.
- Hardening containers, virtual machines, and services against supply-chain and runtime attacks.
- Implementing automated backup pipelines using Restic, Borg, Kopia, and ZFS.
- Creating and testing disaster-recovery playbooks that guarantee fast recovery after failure.
- Monitoring and observability setups using Grafana, Loki, Prometheus, and alerting stacks.
- Practical IaC workflows with Ansible, Terraform, and GitOps principles for repeatable builds.

Who This Book Is For
- Homelab beginners looking for a secure and reliable foundation.
- Intermediate users who want to upgrade their setup from "works most of the time" to true resilience.
- Sysadmins, developers, and cybersecurity learners who want hands-on, real-world DR and hardening skills.
- Anyone running containers, VMs, NAS devices, or small servers who wants peace of mind and long-term reliability.

Why This Book Matters
Your homelab stores real data. It faces real threats. And when things break-they break hard.
This book gives you the exact frameworks, tools, and workflows used by professionals so you can protect your environment, recover instantly, and experiment freely without fear of catastrophic loss.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: B0G5W9WCFV
• ISBN13: 9798277961117
• Release Date: December 2025
• Publisher: Independently Published
• Length: 210 Pages
• Weight: 1.10 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 8.5" x 11.0"