Home Lab State 2023
Here’s an updated version of my lab in 2023. A lot of new additions to go over.
Table of contents
Proxmox
As a hypervisor I use Proxmox. I was using my HP Microserver as the hypervisor but I repurposed that for another usecase.
I purchased 3 HP mini pcs - These ones to be exact. They’re set up in a Proxmox cluster and host vms.
Specifically my container vms. These are Ubuntu server vms that host Docker containers for my self hosted applications, which in no particular order are:
- Home Assistant for home automations.
- Plex as my self hosted media app.
- Unifi-controller as I use Unifi networking equipment.
- Guacamole for RDPing into Windows servers
Just to name a few.
I also host a couple of Windows Domain Controllers, and a domain joined Windows Server 2019 VM for testing Windows stuff.
TRUENAS
I felt like my HP Microserver was better utilized as a NAS, as it has 4 hard drive bays. so I did just that.
I have 24TB of total storage, some of it is used as local SMB fileshares, and the rest I use as NFS storage for my shared data across my containers and vms.
Pi Cluster
A new addition to the lab. I wanted a even more micro scale environment to play around in.
Here is where I really break stuff. To name a few things I’ve done with this:
Digital Ocean Droplet
I treat this as my production environment. I have apps here that I use and want them to run in a more stable environment.
I use this environment to practice CI/CD pipelines using Github Actions.
- Grocy is an app I use to organize my groceries and want to have this available all the time.
Conclusion
My happy little lab has been going strong for over a year in this state and so far it’s been a fun little project for me to tinker around with tech.
I have all the services and scripts I use for my homelab on my github here.