Shipping a secure, portable platform shouldn’t require a cloud account, a giant budget, or weeks of yak-shaving. In this session we’ll build a “Homelab-in-a-Box” using Unified Defense Stack (UDS) Core: a FOSS secure runtime platform that simplifies delivery and deployment of apps across environments while integrating the security needed for authorization.

We’ll walk through a repeatable workflow for self-hosting: from a clean machine to a working local environment you can demo, iterate on, and eventually scale up. Along the way we’ll highlight how UDS enables portable artifacts, reduces vendor lock-in, and makes it easy to update bundles/packages on demand.

Expect a fast tour of the mental model (packages/bundles + secure platform layers), a real homelab-friendly deployment story, and hard-earned tips for making local environments behave like “real” production.