Zero to Homelab
Building a home infrastructure from scratch. Home networks, compute, and automation.
Articles
- Why I Built a Homelab (and Why It Matters) Journey from commercial cloud dependency to self-sufficient infrastructure. From frustration to capability.
- Building a Home Network You Actually Control Designing residential network infrastructure from scratch with architectural separation of concerns and principled infrastructure design.
- Two Nodes, One Lesson in Constraint From a four-node plan to a two-node reality. How energy costs, operational complexity, and data management shaped the compute layer.
- The Commit Is the Deploy How a private Git repository, a deploy script, and encrypted secrets turned a multi-node homelab into infrastructure that scales without scaling complexity.
- What Breaks, What Survives Backup and monitoring are not separate concerns. Monitoring tells you when something breaks; backup determines how far back you can go. Together, they form the operational contract that makes the rest of the infrastructure sustainable.
- No Final Diagram Every stage of this homelab simplified something the previous stage made too complex. The next one will do the same. Infrastructure does not converge on a final state. It converges on a clearer understanding of what you actually need.