Build, secure, and optimize your storage systems from the ground up. TrueNAS Mastery is the definitive hands-on guide for homelab enthusiasts, beginners, and small DevOps teams who want to master TrueNAS and ZFS.
Inside, you'll discover:
Foundations of storage: block, file, and object storage, RAID, JBOD, and erasure coding
TrueNAS CORE & SCALE deployment and configuration: pools, datasets, snapshots, replication, encryption
ZFS deep dives: Copy-on-Write, ARC/L2ARC/ZIL, snapshots, clones, deduplication, and performance tuning
Real-world labs: build a Plex media server, personal backup vaults, and experiment with advanced features
CLI cheat sheets, hardware compatibility guides, and troubleshooting strategies
With step-by-step instructions and practical projects, this book ensures you don't just learn concepts-you build real, reliable storage systems that perform and scal