Homelab

A platform to experiment on

Built so I can test bleeding-edge tools and new methodologies on real infrastructure, not toy setups. These are tools I want to run for real before trusting them. It is layered like a real platform, from a segmented network edge through a clustered compute layer, so I can stand something up, push it hard, and tear it down without it ever touching the services I depend on every day.

Core platform

• A dedicated firewall runs the network edge, firewall policy, and segmentation.
• A clustered hypervisor runs the compute layer for VMs and containers.
• Offsite backups run weekly to a dedicated backup server at a cloud provider, with attached storage holding the snapshots.
• Resilient DNS with a fallback path.
• A self-hosted identity provider handles auth for internal services and cloud access, and an LLM gateway fronts model access with controls.
• Remora serves self-hosted memory for my local agents.
• A mix of self-hosted services for secrets, file sync, and reverse proxying makes up the everyday layer.

Why it matters

A real environment to push new tools and methods, with the segmentation and recovery paths that keep a broken experiment from taking out everything else. The good ideas graduate, the rest get torn down.