LABOPS

HYBRID HOMELAB PLATFORM

BUILD IN PROGRESS

SELF-HOSTED INFRASTRUCTURE

Systems.
Connected clearly.

Storage, virtualisation, secure networking, observability, automation, cloud access, and edge hardware.

10 PLATFORM COMPONENTS2 ACTIVE BUILDSLIVE STATUS READY

PLATFORM OVERVIEW

ACCESS

Users

CLOUDFLARE + TAILSCALE

Secure Routes

VLAN + FIREWALL

Network

COMPUTE CONTROL PLANE

Proxmox Platform

STORAGE

Pi 4 NAS

OBSERVE

Grafana

AUTOMATE

AI Gateway

01

Architecture flow

A visual path from public access to private infrastructure.

Internet

Public visitors

HTTPS
→

Cloudflare

Tunnel + edge

PRIVATE
→

Home Network

Switch + VLANs

ROUTED
→

Proxmox

VMs + services

DATA
→

Pi 4 NAS

Files + media

AUTOMATION + OBSERVABILITY LAYER

Metrics

Prometheus + Grafana

Automation

LiteLLM + MCP

IoT

Blink media pipeline

Display

NVIDIA Shield wallboard

02

Build journey

The platform expands in controlled stages.

01ACTIVE

Foundation

  • — Repository
  • — Architecture docs
  • — Runbooks
02NEXT

Storage

  • — Pi 4 OS
  • — 1TB disk
  • — SMB + NFS
03PLANNED

Network

  • — Managed switch
  • — VLANs
  • — pfSense
04PLANNED

Services

  • — Monitoring
  • — AI gateway
  • — K3s

03

Platform components

Each component has a defined role in the architecture.

BUILDING
GIThomelab-mono

Project Repository

Code, documentation, configuration, and runbooks.

BUILDING
RPIhome-edge-01

Pi 4 NAS

Storage, SMB/NFS shares, media, and camera data.

PLANNED
VLANugreen-switch-01

Managed Network

Segmented traffic for management, apps, and IoT.

PLANNED
PVEplatform-01

Proxmox Platform

VMs, containers, firewall, AI, and Kubernetes.

PLANNED
OBSvm-200

Monitoring Stack

Grafana, Prometheus, uptime checks, and alerts.

PLANNED
AIvm-400

AI Gateway

Ollama, LiteLLM, Open WebUI, and MCP tools.

PLANNED
DNSpi-dns-01

Pi-hole Node

Independent DNS filtering and lightweight monitoring.

PLANNED
IOTblink-edge-01

Blink Pipeline

Future camera storage, events, indexing, and retention.

PLANNED
TVshield-tv

Shield Wallboard

Visual Grafana and live infrastructure dashboard display.