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Homelab

A self-hosted lab on mini PCs and a Pi — Proxmox, Kubernetes, and HomeAssistant — where I learn the hard way before work pays for it.

3+ yrs
Homelab

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3+yrs

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Major concepts

01Virtualisation

Proxmox VE on low-power mini PCs (Intel N100, EliteDesk) running VMs and LXC containers — OPNsense, Traefik, and Tailscale among them.

02Self-hosted services

A growing fleet of self-hosted apps behind a reverse proxy: dev tools, automation, and home services, each on its own clean route.

03Home automation

HomeAssistant (on a Raspberry Pi) with ESP32/ESPHome devices — a real reason for the IoT VLAN to exist.

04Kubernetes at home

A small k8s setup across nodes for practising the orchestration patterns I want to be fluent in at work.

Advantages · 04

Core advantages

  • A consequence-free place to break things teaches faster than any course
  • Self-hosting builds end-to-end intuition: DNS to storage to TLS to monitoring
  • Patterns proven at home scale transfer directly to production
  • Owning the metal demystifies the cloud abstractions on top of it

Highlights · 03

Work highlights

  • Run Proxmox VE across mini PCs hosting OPNsense, Traefik, and Tailscale
  • Self-host services on a Raspberry Pi and Kubernetes nodes
  • Built a HomeAssistant + ESP32 smart-home setup on a segmented IoT VLAN

Skills · 06

Competencies

  • Proxmox VE
  • Kubernetes
  • HomeAssistant / ESPHome
  • Docker Compose fleets
  • Linux administration
  • Self-hosting & reverse proxy