The gear and software behind the lab — a homelab take on the uses.tech convention. Specifics I’d rather not advertise are left out on purpose.
Compute & virtualization
- Proxmox VE — 3-node HA cluster: 2× Ryzen 9 9955HX (16c/32t, 64 GB) + 1× Intel Ultra 9 285HX (24c, 96 GB), 2 TB NVMe each
- Talos Linux — immutable Kubernetes node OS, running as Proxmox VMs
Storage & network
- UniFi UNAS Pro — 6×16 TB RAID10 (~48 TB); primary guest disks + daily backups
- UniFi UNAS Pro 8 — 8×12 TB RAID6 (~72 TB); media + weekly archives
- UCG Fiber — gateway + UniFi controller
- USW Aggregation — 8× 10G SFP+ core switch
- USW Pro XG 10 PoE — 10GbE access switch
- ≈Eero mesh — WiFi
- //VLAN segmentation by trust level (10G storage on its own non-routed path)
Backup
- Proxmox Backup Server — deduplicated, incremental backups with failure-isolated copies
Edge
- Cloudflare Tunnel + Access — zero-inbound-port public exposure, admin surfaces gated
- Nginx Proxy Manager — internal reverse proxy and TLS
Self-hosted services
- Immich — photos
- Plex — media
- Paperless-ngx — documents
- OWOpen WebUI — self-hosted AI
- n8n — workflow automation
- code-server — VS Code in the browser
- Obsidian + a knowledge-base layer
- WordPress — this blog
- authentik — SSO (in progress)
This site
- WordPress with a custom Clean Technical block theme (an Ollie child)
- {}Prism.js for code highlighting, The SEO Framework for SEO
- Self-hosted in Docker, fronted by Cloudflare
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