Series: Setting up Oracle Cloud VM

Pratik Chandra

Pratik Chandra

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Build Your Own Homelab on Oracle Cloud Free Tier

A Complete Guide with Docker, Traefik, Keycloak, and More

Setting up a homelab used to mean investing in physical hardware. But with cloud providers offering generous free-tier resources, it’s now entirely possible to host a full-featured, always-on homelab in the cloud — for free. This guide walks you through the entire process of building a secure, scalable, and multi-purpose homelab using an Oracle Cloud Free Tier VM, Docker, Traefik reverse proxy, Let's Encrypt, DuckDNS, Keycloak for identity, and more.

This series is divided into 5 parts.

  1. Series: Setting up Oracle Cloud VM - I
  2. Series: Setting up Oracle Cloud VM - II
  3. Series: Setting up Oracle Cloud VM - III
  4. Series: Setting up Oracle Cloud VM - IV
  5. Series: Setting up Oracle Cloud VM - V

This series is a raw documentation of my process, and is the final output of lots of hit and trials to get things working, so hopefully this helps you save some time.

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