diff --git a/nix/nix-lab/helm/helmfile.yaml b/nix/nix-lab/helm/helmfile.yaml
index dbd031e8..d93a879f 100644
--- a/nix/nix-lab/helm/helmfile.yaml
+++ b/nix/nix-lab/helm/helmfile.yaml
@@ -3,6 +3,8 @@ repositories:
     url: https://charts.longhorn.io
   - name: kyverno
     url: https://kyverno.github.io/kyverno
+  - name: metallb
+    url: https://metallb.github.io/metallb
 ---
 releases:
   # Distributed storage
@@ -15,3 +17,8 @@ releases:
     namespace: kyverno
     chart: kyverno/kyverno
     version: 3.2.7
+  - name: metallb
+    namespace: metallb-system
+    chart: metallb/metallb
+    version: 0.14.5
+  
diff --git a/shell.nix b/shell.nix
index cf7ccd7c..fb5a27d9 100644
--- a/shell.nix
+++ b/shell.nix
@@ -1,9 +1,62 @@
-# Install git, sops, Docker, bash, 
+# Install core packages, configure toolkits
+let
+  nixpkgs = fetchTarball "https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/tarball/nixos-24.05";
+  pkgs = import nixpkgs { config = {}; overlays = []; };
+in
+
+  pkgs.mkShellNoCC {
+    packages = with pkgs; [
+      ssh git sops docker
+      vim
+      tree btop
+      bat fd eza fzf
+      ssh-to-age
+    ];
+    shellHook = ''
+      # Configure env
+      USER="joey"
+      HOSTNAME="dungeon-master"
+      NAME="Joey Hafner"
+      EMAIL="joey@jafner.net"
+
+      # Configure SSH. Expects existing key at ~/.ssh/$USER@$HOSTNAME.key
+      SSH_KEY="~/.ssh/$USER@$HOSTNAME.key"
+      SSH_PUBKEY="~/.ssh/$USER@$HOSTNAME.pub"
+      alias ssh="ssh -i $SSH_KEY"
+
+      # Configure Git
+      # global
+      git config core.sshcommand "ssh -i $SSH_KEY"
+      git config user.name "$NAME"
+      git config user.email "$EMAIL"
+      git config user.signingkey "$SSH_PUBKEY"
+      git config init.defaultbranch "main"
+      git config gpg.format "ssh"
+      git config commit.gpgsign "true"
+      git config credential.helper "manager"
+      git config core.pager "delta"
+      git config delta.side-by-side "true"
+      git config interactive.difffilter "delta --color-only"
+      
+      # repo
+      git config core.repositoryformatversion "0"
+      git config core.filemode "true"
+      git config core.bare "false"
+      git config core.logallrefupdates "true"
+      git config remote.origin.url "ssh://git@gitea.jafner.tools:2225/Jafner/Jafner.net.git"
+      git config remote.origin.fetch "+refs/heads/*:refs/remotes/origin/*"
+      git config branch.main.remote "origin"
+      git config branch.main.merge "refs/heads/main"
+      git config submodule.sites/Jafner.dev/themes/hello-friend-ng.active "true"
+      git config submodule.sites/Jafner.dev/themes/hello-friend-ng.url "https://github.com/rhazdon/hugo-theme-hello-friend-ng.git"
+      
+      # Configure sops
+      ssh-2-age -p -i $SSH_KEY $HOME/.age/key 
+      git config filter.sops.smudge '.sops/decrypt-filter.sh %f'
+      git config filter.sops.clean '.sops/encrypt-filter.sh %f'
+      git config filter.sops.required "true"
+
+    '';
+
+};
 
-{ pkgs ? import <nixpkgs> {} }: pkgs.mkShell { 
-  packages = with pkgs; [ 
-    git sops docker 
-    tree btop
-    bat fd eza fzf
-  ];
-}
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