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Homelab. A small 8U rack I run like production.

A small 8U rack at home that I run like production. Everything lives in git, backups get restored on purpose, and alerts mean something. Addresses and hostnames stay off this page.

8U mini rackSwitchDell OptiPlexNASUniFi router
8U
rack, 2U in use
OptiPlex
Dell, Proxmox running k3s
NAS
on top, storage and backups
UniFi
router, off to the side

Status. Simulated, so the real addresses stay private.

geric@homelab: zsh
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Why run one. Three honest reasons.

It's where I practice the job. GitOps, backups, and alerting get tried here before I suggest them at work.

It breaks in useful ways. The git runner is flaky right now, and figuring out why teaches more than a tutorial.

This site will run on it. The repo ships a container and k3s manifests, so deploying is a pull and a make.

Updated September 2026.