01 · Platform & recovery
Core infrastructure services
Foundational services for connectivity, configuration, application data, and recovery testing.
Independent engineering lab
A place to test systems, tradeoffs, and the occasional interesting failure mode.
Personal engineering work, not a client environment. I use it to test virtualization, storage, Linux, networking, containers, and Home Assistant. This website runs on the Proxmox cluster, too.
INTERNETExternal access
FIREWALLRouting & segmentation
TRUENASZFS · NFS · S3 backup
PROXMOX CLUSTERThree nodes · quorum
WORKLOADSNextcloud · Home Assistant + more
Independent engineering · service catalog
A working lab, not just a diagram.
These services give the lab a real operational surface for testing upgrades, storage behavior, automation, monitoring, recovery, and everyday troubleshooting.
02 · Operations
Automation & observability
Tools for workflow design, monitoring, remote operations, documentation, and a friendlier operator view.
03 · Home automation
Connected home systems
Home Assistant brings automations, sensors, and device integrations into the same practical lab environment.
04 · Personal cloud
Files, photos & libraries
Self-hosted platforms for collaboration and media libraries, including the storage and permissions work that comes with them.
05 · Application workloads
Business, media & web platforms
Database-backed applications, media services, web delivery, and lifecycle testing round out the environment.