Homelab

My homelab journey started off by running various services on an old Dell Optiplex PC, mostly in docker containers. For the OS I had chosen Linux Mint. After noticing how high the power consumption of the old computer was, I switched to running multiple Raspberry Pi devices, totaling to just a portion of what the PC was using in energy.

Mini-Rack

While upgrading to a raspberry pi 5, I created a tiny server rack using aluminum extrusion profiles cut to about 20cm in length and multiple screw-together Gridfinity baseplates. The following devices are housed in this setup:

• Networking switch
• Pi 2b and Pi 5
• Home Assistant Yellow
• Flic Hub LR
• Samsung T5 SSD

Services

Homeassistant

• Running on a CM4 with an NVMe-SSD
• https://www.home-assistant.io/

Octoprint

• For 3dPrinting
• running on a Pi Zero W2, connected to the printer via USB
• https://octoprint.org/

Nextcloud

• Local cloud storage
• Installed with snap
• https://snapcraft.io/nextcloud

Infrastructure

Router

Currently a FRITZ!Box. For wired connections I use a Netgear GS308 Switch with 8 Ports.

Pi Hole

DNS server and ad blocking on a Raspberry Pi 2b

• https://pi-hole.net

NGINX Proxy Manager

Serves as a reverse proxy, which I can point URLs such as pi-hole to, which are then redirected/forwarded to a specific port or IP address.

• https://nginxproxymanager.com/

Dashboard

• https://github.com/gethomepage/homepage/
• https://github.com/bastienwirtz/homer
• https://dashy.to/
• OliveTin - config at etc/OliveTin/config.yaml
  • sudo nano /etc/OliveTin/config.yaml
  • sudo systemctl restart OliveTin.service after changes