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I am a software developer who is passionate about creating innovative and efficient solutions to complex problems. I also enjoy writing about my personal projects and sharing my knowledge with others. I am maintaining a blog to document my coding adventures, share tips and tricks for software development, and discuss interesting topics in computer science.
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It’s almost the end of 2024, let me share my current setup for my home lab which I have been working on for the past year.
Here’s a brief overview of my internal network.
192.168.1.10 is a mini pc designated as my main storage server, which I used to set up my network file-sharing server and Samba server. I decided to keep most of my setup here pretty simple with no virtualization and opt to run more critical and fundamental services.
The main services running here are my prometheus-grafana-loki monitoring stack which collects metrics and logs from other hosts for display. I also run Adguard here, which is my DNS resolver for my home network. Authentik is an identity provider that supports ODIC protocol for SSO sign-in to my internal applications. Vaultwarden serves as another password manager I use for authentication in my internal application when Authentik is not an option.
Here are some examples of my monitoring visualization:
192.168.1.11 is another mini pc running my proxmox operating system that can create virtual machines. Not a lot is done here on this physical machine.
192.169.1.13 is a virtual machine running docker. Through docker-compose.yaml scripts I was able to set up my application services quickly. Some applications such as immich and hoarder rely on NFS storage from my storage server. Here I have also set up Caddy reverse proxy, which is the entry point for most of my internal applications. Incoming network request to my internal application is first routed to this reverse proxy and then to other machines through IP and port, or via docker network if on the same host.
Here are what some of the apps do:
Immich: Google Photo alternative
Paperless: stores documents
Dashy: dashboard
Gitea: git repository and docker image storage
Hoarder: stores website links and web pages
Outline: notion like a note-taking app
Caddy: reverse proxy entry point for most apps
192.169.1.12 is another virtual machine that only runs Tailscale. Tailscale provides a VPN, allowing me to connect to my home network even if I am outside. My tailscale node here is configured as an exit node.
192.168.1.2 is an old desktop pc running proxmox operating system for most of my testing builds. I can quickly start up and delete virtual machines easily. I also have Kubernetes clusters setup, running 1 master node and 2 worker nodes, right now mainly for experimental purposes only.
To connect to my internal applications easily, I have set up a DNS Type A record on Cloudflare. So instead of using the IP address and port to connect, I can use <app name>.wongandre.com to resolve the IP address of my Caddy reverse proxy.
Here is a homepage of my services, which is grouped into different categories. Monitoring for metrics and logging related apps. User management for internal app identity management. Networking for Adguard DNS, router configs, and proxmox configs. Data management for storing personal data like images, documents, or repositories.
some plans to improve my home lab I have in mind right now
self-host my own large language model such as Ollama
create a production Kubernetes environment and migrate/add services to it
Infrastructure as Code
write scripts to automate provisioning proxmox VMs and LXC through Terraform
write scripts to automate installing configurations per instance through Ansible
Add more storage with direct attached storage (DAS)
Configure backup for my data
add more apps!