Homelab

This section will contain my notes and configuration files on my home lab.

Environment

As you can see from the picture, we are not talking about some powerful, power hungry set up.
For the home user with modest requirements, i.e less than 4 users, then not much more than what is displayed in the image is all you will need.
I have 3 HPEliteDesktop, and a bunch of Raspberry PI’s, not all running at the same time. Due to my experimental nature, there are about 3 running constantly, the others are for experimentation purposes and come and go as needed.
The cost of the HP EliteDesktop are at this time of writing (late 2023) is about $140 AU off Ebay. The Raspberry Pi’s I buy new, I have a few Pi3, 4 and one 5.
As for power consumption, It is less than 10W, so should not make much difference to you power bill.

Internet connection

I have a cable connection, with a relatively stable IP address, however if power is interrupted to the modem, then when it restarts I may end up with another IP address. The usual ports are blocked, so no running services from my IP, and I am behind a CGNAT network.

What OS am I using?

For servers it is predominantly Ubuntu Server 22.04 LTS, on some Raspberry pi devices it is Raspbian.

What services do I run?

• Nextcloud
• PiHole with Pivpn
• Home Assistant
• lxd(Incus)
• Docker
  • Traefik
  • Mealie
  • Paperless-ngx
  • Nginx
  • Freshrss
  • Linkding
  • Photoprism