Homelab showcase
A technical case study in practical infrastructure.
The homelab section documents a real personal lab: Proxmox compute, Synology storage, private remote access, DNS filtering, Home Assistant, Docker services, media, backups, and AI-agent experiments.
A useful starting point
See the architecture before the individual services.
The overview lays out the network, compute, storage, access, automation, and experimental layers in plain language.
Start with the architectureSystems by role
Follow a system for placement decisions, recovery choices, and lessons from running it.
Start here
The architecture overview explains how the lab's major roles fit together.
Reliable foundation
Core services, access paths, storage, and operations keep daily routines recoverable.
AdGuard Home
How DNS filtering became a reliability-sensitive service for local and remote devices.
Monitoring and Reliability
How backups, update review, uptime checks, tunnel alerts, and restore thinking turn the lab into an operational learning system.
Synology NAS and Backups
A generalized storage and recovery overview covering NAS storage, Proxmox backups, workstation backups, Time Machine, sync, snapshots, and restore thinking.
Tailscale Remote Access
The private overlay network that connects trusted devices, core services, DNS, SSH, media, smart home, and AI agent systems.
Compute and applications
Compute and application layers host the services that make the lab useful.
Media Stack
A local media service that combines Jellyfin, containerized support apps, NAS storage, hardware encoding, and practical backup tradeoffs.
Proxmox Virtualization
How the lab uses Proxmox to separate reliable services, experimental VMs, media workloads, and AI agent environments.
Automation and experiments
Automation, development, and retrospective pages document active learning at the edge.
Forgejo Git Backend
How a self-hosted Git service became the lab's local history layer for Docker Compose, Ansible, documentation, projects, and AI-agent work.
Home Assistant
A practical smart-home hub for lights, fans, climate, cameras, scenes, and experiments that still need fallback controls.
Lessons Learned
A running log of practical lessons from turning a personal lab into useful daily infrastructure.
Edge access
Browser and private-network entry points are separated by device and trust boundary.