Homelab

A self-hosted infrastructure running on modest home hardware.

Self-hosted services

Service	What it does
Nextcloud	Private cloud storage and sync
Passbolt	Team password manager
Gitea	Self-hosted Git with CI/CD
SearXNG	Privacy-respecting meta-search engine
Gramps Web	Family tree / genealogy
Uptime Kuma	Service availability monitoring

Infrastructure

Built on:

• Proxmox VE hypervisor running virtual machines and containers
• NixOS for declarative, reproducible server configuration
• Docker for containerised applications
• FreeIPA for centralised identity and authentication
• Terraform and Ansible for infrastructure as code
• Traefik for reverse proxy with automatic TLS

Tech stack highlights

• All infrastructure is declared in code — no manual configuration
• Automated drift detection runs daily to catch any state inconsistencies
• Secrets are encrypted at rest using SOPS + age
• Automated documentation generated from live inventory