Tag: homelab
All the articles with the tag "homelab".
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Home Server Series: From Desktop to Self-Hosted Infrastructure
A complete guide to converting a desktop machine into a home server running K3s, media services, photo backup, custom web apps, and monitoring — organised as a series of focused articles.
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Home Server Part 1: Market Research — What's Out There
Surveying the 2025-2026 landscape for home server setups: Linux distros, container orchestration, media automation, photo backup, reverse proxies, auth layers, remote access, and monitoring.
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Home Server Part 2: Requirements and Decisions — Why We Chose This Stack
Narrowing down from market research to concrete choices: Ubuntu over Proxmox, K3s over Docker Compose, CronJobs over Knative, Jellyfin over Plex, and the honest take on serverless at home.
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Home Server Part 3: Cluster Setup — Ubuntu Server, K3s, and Traefik
Installing Ubuntu Server 24.04 with LVM, K3s single-node Kubernetes, storage classes, and Traefik ingress with host-based routing and dashboard.
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Home Server Part 5: Monitoring — Grafana and Prometheus
Deploying the kube-prometheus-stack on K3s via Helm, configuring Grafana dashboards for cluster and system monitoring, and recommended pre-built dashboards.
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Home Server Part 6: Photos — Immich as a Google Photos Replacement
Deploying Immich on K3s via Helm chart with persistent storage, Traefik ingress, and mobile auto-backup configuration.