Homelab

One Raspberry Pi, doing one job well. The rest is a list of what comes next, not a list of what I own.

Running now

  • Raspberry Pi 4 — running Ubuntu Server. The whole lab, for now, and where anything I want to understand gets tested first.
  • Tailscale — the Pi is my exit node, so my traffic leaves from home wherever I happen to be.

Tried and moved on

  • CasaOS — got everything running in an afternoon. That turned out to be the problem: I wanted to know what it was doing for me.

Next up

  • Prometheus + Grafana — metrics for the Pi first, the rest of the network after.
  • NetBox — a source of truth reads differently once you have run one yourself.
  • WireGuard — Tailscale already speaks it; I want to configure it by hand at least once.
  • Pi-hole / AdGuard Home — DNS filtering, and a reason to look at what the network actually asks for.