The Lab

This is the landing page for my homelab posts. It isn't a feed because I will write things here and link out to relevant parts of the homelab.

I'll probably have notes about the hardware mostly here.

Primary Application Server

My main server is called ghost

Current Homelab Setup

I copied this our of homelab-journey-part-1#current-homelab-setup for now to stub out what this page will link to

Ad blocking | Pi-Hole

Hardware: pi-3

I have a Raspberry Pi 3 hardwired in that is running pi-hole so that's been a part of my infrastructure now for a long time.

Router | OPNSense

My router is an old Optiplex SFF 5060 I got from Amazon for less than $100. So I'm running a x86 system for my router with OpenSense on it. Just seemed it to be another home lab standard and I'd like to someday bring pi-hole over there or use AdGuard or integrate those two things maybe a little bit more completely but right now they are mostly separate.

Networking | VLANs

There's a managed switch in there for some VLAN tomfoolery for my cameras and an IOT network type of a thing.

Networking | VPN | Tailscale

They're on tailscale as well so my DNS happens over tailscale.

My Desktop

My daily-driver desktop is somewhat apart of my homelab now as I have a 3090 in there with 20 GB of VRAM so I can run some heavier LLMs for self-hosted AI workloads. Everything in that space runs in a container and then I manage docker containers with compose stacks and portainer for visibility.

Applications

Some of the apps I run here are ollama, open-webui, automatic1111's stable diffusion webui, whisper-webui