HomeLab infrastructure
This describe the current state of my home infrastructure. I’ll go through a short description of my machines first and then with an overview, and finally with a list of all services I host.
In this page, I’ll reference a few blog post related, to specific services or setup.
NB: If you want an history of the infrastructure take a look to the git repository and changes of this file over time.
Overview
So we have 3 machines each one is dedicated to a special task.
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NAS → Store data, and host a few services
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HTPC → Host services related to Streaming (audio and video) because it has a graphical card
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Proxy → Only serves the reverse proxy role, and DNS/ DHCP (Inner-edge services)
All of the services I host are deployed using docker. All the machines uses docker swarm to facilitate the deployement ( Host is declared in a file and can be easily versionned)
My babies
PiProxy
For the proxy purposed I invested in a Raspberry Pi 4 Model B. The RPI4 has the advantage to be small, having a great network interface and has quite good performances. I think it is easy to set them up as a cluster in case I want to upgrade them.
Hardware
RAM: 4GB Ethernet: 1Gb (That’s why I uses it as proxy)
Services
NASGull
My very first build, I’m proud of it. It made me learn a lot about hardware, specs, and how everything work together. As first build it was not bad but if I look back I think I should have done few things differently. That’s why it will be changed a bit in weeks to come.
This machine as you might have guessed, serve the NAS purpose.
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A lot of disks
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A great Network Interface (Would have prefered to have two, but my network is not that large for the moment)
Hardware
Processor: Intel Pentium Gold Motherboard: MSI Mini ITX PSU: 450W Platinium Seasonic CG: None RAM: 16GB Additionnal PCIE: 2 * 2 SATA port card HDD: 8 * 4TB Western Digital RED + 1 * 1TB Seagate Barracuda. SSD: 100GB WD blue. Case: Actually Fractal Design R5 White that is a bit massive. So I’m waiting for the delivery of a Node804 case.
Software
OS: FreeNAS 1 CentOS VM for docker services.
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NFS
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SMART Drive tests
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Two ZFS array (RAID 10 equivalent.) so 12TB usable.
I plan to move to TrueNAS Core when out, it should allow me to remove the CentOS VM which I don’t really need.
HTPC
An old ASUS laptop, that I once used and is now too old to be used as a laptop. The battery is melting, and needs to be plugged in almost all the time. So I made an HTPC out of him and it works pretty great (It used to be my NAS with several bay connected with USB.) Cheap and working.
The only customization I made was to remove the screen. Leaving the keyboard and eventually plug him in on a screen. A thing I hated with this laptop, was that I could’nt get any boot screen. So to perform the installation I had to remove the HDD and install the OS from another computer.
Hardware
Processor: Intel Core i7 RAM: 2* 8GB CG: Nvidia 730M HDD: 1TB Ethenet: 1GB (but actually uses 100M don’t really know why…. Need to investigate.)
Software
OS : Ubuntu 18.04 Docker
Services deployed
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Pihole
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Traefik
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Authelia
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Jellyfin
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Airsonic
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OpenLdap
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FusionDirectory
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Gitea
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DroneCI
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Sonatype Nexus Registry
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SwarmPit
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Zabbix
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Netdata
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Graylog
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FreshRSS
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Rocket.Chat
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Nextcloud
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Collabora
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BookStack
Related blog posts.
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Setup NFS service on your NAS and connect from another computer.
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Deploy a service to your local network
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Deploy a service to the internet
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Setup your Installation using Ansible
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Use docker for deployement
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Monitor your services
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Orange (french internet provider) DNS issues for accessing local services with external address