Homelab Notes #01

I will use the homelab tag to write notes about my Homelab setup and ongoing updates/changes. This post is the first one in the series.

My humble homelab setup includes:

Raspberry Pi 5 8GB
- Always-on home server.
- Runs Raspberry Pi OS (but set to track Debian Testing).
- Runs a few software for personal (single-person) use:
  - Miniflux - RSS Reader. I've tried using FreshRSS before but I like the minimalist UI of Miniflux. This has become my primary feed reader.
  - Linkding - This is my main Link bookmarking service. I have mostly switched over from using Pocket. Someday, I will look at making my saved links public for others to explore.
  - Home Assistant - Smart Home management. Integrates well with my Philips Hue Hub.
  - PostgreSQ - Primary database used by a few of the services above.
  - Prometheus & Grafana - For metrics collection and monitoring.
  - Pi-Hole - DNS-based Ad-blocking.
  - Tailscale - For remote access when I'm far from home.
Home PC
- This is mostly my Gaming PC runing an Intel i5-9600K with an AMD Radeon 6800XT GPU.
- I use Arch, btw! :D
- I occassionaly use it for tinkering with Deep Learning / ML models. AMD-ROCm (AMD's equivalent of NVIDIA CUDA) works well in Docker with their container images.
- In the future, I expect this machine to join the Homelab as a full-time NAS machine.

I've been running the Raspberry PI at home most of this year and I'm pleased with its performance.

Next steps are figuring out how to backup configuration and data for all the services so that I can restore functionality in case of a failure.