Homelab

A place for me to document my setup and scripts for my personal home server for reproducibility. Using it for self-hosted services, mainly for fun and as a learning environment for Linux, Docker, networking, etc.

Hardware

• CPU: Intel Core i7-6700 @ 3.40GHz
• RAM: 32GB
• GPU: NVIDIA GTX 1050 Ti (for potential future transcoding)
• OS Drive: 1TB NVMe SSD
• Storage: 2x 8TB HDD in RAID1
• OS: Ubuntu Server 24.04 LTS

Current Services

Running:

• Traefik - reverse proxy with SSL
• Portainer - container management
• NextCloud - file storage
• Navidrome - music streaming
• Grafana + Prometheus - monitoring
• Languagetool - editing tool for writing

Network

• Local access only (no external exposure, at least for now)
• SSL via mkcert local CA
• Services accessed via *.homelab.local domains

Project Status

Working:

• Base system with SSH hardening, UFW firewall
• RAID1 storage array with SMART monitoring
• Docker with Traefik reverse proxy
• Local SSL certificates
• NextCloud deployment
• Navidrome music streaming server
• Remote access via Tailscale

Planned:

• Automated backups

Documentation

Note: Still in progress.

• Setup Guide
• Troubleshooting
• NextCloud
• Grafana and Prometheus
• Automated Backups