Homelab & Uses
The nbdevlab rack is a rotating collection of gear, but these are the staples that stay powered on and patched.
Core hardware
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Compute
Proxmox VE cluster running on a pair of HP ProLiant DL360 Gen9 nodes with dual Xeon E5-2680v4 CPUs, 128 GB ECC RAM, and mirrored NVMe boot drives. GPU passthrough to an RTX 4000 for AI workloads.
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Storage
TrueNAS SCALE with 6×12 TB drives in RAID-Z2, plus a fast NVMe cache pool. Backups replicate to a Wasabi bucket nightly.
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Networking
pfSense gateway with dual WAN failover, UniFi aggregation switch, and a Wi-Fi 7 AP covering the lab and office.
Favorite tooling
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Observability
Grafana, Loki, and Tempo pipelines with k6 for synthetic checks and Uptime Kuma for quick pings.
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Developer workflow
Astro, Cloudflare Pages, GitHub Actions, and task runners scripted with npm and justfiles.
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Automation
n8n for event-driven flows, Ansible for patch windows, and Cloudflare Workers for edge-side glue.