Houstan We Have Lift-Off

Houstan is the public repo for My Home Lab. Currently the development is geared toward me specifically, but the goal is to create a "Home Lab Generator" that could work with any number of machines or apps.

It is currently version 0.01 USE AT OWN RISK

Three Parts of Houstan

There are three conceptual parts to Houstan.

• Command Center - Always on Machine(s) that deal with infrastructure management and home lab administration
• Infrastructure - Machine(s) (local or cloud) that will run all user applications
• Applications - Application management system. Bootstrapping, Maintaining and Cleaning

Notice it says conceptual parts as this could all run on a single machine if it's powerful enough.

The basic scaffolding is as follows:

• Single Command Center machine for mission critical, always on utilities and programs
• Machine for network router (not the main internet router)
• A set of machines that create a master Nomad cluster.
  • OpenStack
    • Kubernetes Clusters
      • cluster for home use applications
      • cluster for testing
      • cluster(s) for business applications

In my case, I have installed Ubuntu Desktop on a Microsoft Surface Go that I use as my command center as it sits on my living room table, always on. I use this as I also have Home Assistant running on this machine and I like the touch screen display for this use case. If you don't need that, even a RaspPi would work.

Backups of the Command Center OS Image are Vital.

This whole project is in early development, but the underlying technologies will not be. Use this (if even working) at your very own risk. I will constantly be making changes (most likely breaking)