this is a short article on the discovery of Umbrel. See more from here: https://umbrel.com/umbrel-home . The key driver is that instead of everything rely on cloud services, and subscriptions, just if we have some spare hardware we could host some workload for ourselves, or our family. Doing some private customization to the home. From home media servers, photo sharing, smart home automation, or any self-hosted applications. The key idea is to do something custom tailored to specific use case. As well as an alternative cheap method to study the cloud computing, and hosting knowledge. All these could be useful like added knowledge to contribute back to organizational, enterprise infrastructure planning. Start small, as the entry point.

More on Umbrel OS Installation and Offering

articles, YouTube and related resources that I came across:

I also learnt that Umbrel it comes with its own preconfigured hardware, as well as custom installable media on the Raspberry Pi in the following article: https://community.umbrel.com/t/how-to-install-umbrel-on-raspberry-pi-5/14787

Some other things I learn from Umbrel OS AppStore (a curated list of applications)

https://apps.umbrel.com/ Even if I have not started to use Umbrel OS some of the applications listed on the App Store may help to reinforce and validate my choice of certain applications to be used in the homelab situation. For example, the home networking, personal VPN, to use the Tailscale. https://tailscale.com/ which is also listed on the Umbrel App Store. With that information, that's quite helpful for me to further discover many other self-hosted solutions that can be useful for home lab DIY-crafting.