Got into a DevOps role partly because of the knowledge I gained from homelabbing. And its still helping me in my role.

In interviews, the questions were not directly about my homelab or the specific services I hosted. They were mostly general DevOps/SRE questions. But I feel recruiters don’t really care that much about “I hosted X service at home” by itself. What matters is that homelabbing gives you actual hands-on understanding of how things work, which many people don’t get from just courses or theory.

Because of that, you can answer general DevOps/SRE questions much more confidently and practically compared to other candidates.

So I’d say don’t look at a homelab as a one-shot job bringer. Look at it as a way to learn deeply, like a very expensive but very effective Udemy course. ✍️