homelab

A homelab for self-hosting open source software.

Architecture Layers

• Layer 1: Hardware - Refurbished MacBook Pro (2015, Intel Core i7, 16GB DDR3 RAM).
• Layer 2: Hypervisor - Proxmox VE configured with Ansible and connected via Tailscale VPN.
• Layer 3: Virtual Machines - 3 VMs (1 control plane, 2 workers) provisioned via Terraform running Talos Linux (4GB RAM and 2 cores each)
• Layer 4: Kubernetes - Running a fully immutable, API-managed Kubernetes distribution with a entirely declarative configuration.

Infrastructure Stack

Infrastructure & Orchestration	Terraform Ansible Docker Kubernetes
Virtualization & Operating Systems	Proxmox Ubuntu Linux
Networking & Security	Cloudflare Tailscale Caddy Traefik
Cloud & DevOps	AWS FluxCD
Monitoring & Observability	Prometheus Grafana Loki
Applications & Databases	n8n PostgreSQL Commafeed Dokploy Portainer