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# Ced's HomeLab
# 🧠 Ceds HomeLab (Enterprise Infrastructure & Monitoring Lab)
Ced's HomeLab is my personal minidatacenter: a segmented, cloud-connected environment built for learning, experimentation, and portfolio work. It includes:
> A production-style infrastructure lab showcasing real-world systems engineering, monitoring, and platform operations.
- Proxmox virtualization
- TrueNAS ZFS storage
- A 12-node Raspberry Pi K3s cluster
- Nginx Proxy Manager + Cloudflare Tunnel
- Home Assistant + IoT integration
- Media stack (Arr suite + Jellyfin)
- Observability (Grafana, Prometheus, Uptime Kuma)
This environment functions as a **personal datacenter**, combining virtualization, Kubernetes orchestration, observability, and secure external access.
This repo is the **documentation and configuration hub** for the entire environment.
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## 🚀 What This Lab Demonstrates
- Infrastructure design (Proxmox + virtualized services)
- Kubernetes orchestration (12-node K3s cluster)
- Network segmentation (VLAN architecture)
- Monitoring & observability (Grafana, Prometheus, Uptime Kuma)
- Secure service exposure (Cloudflare Tunnels + reverse proxy)
- Real-world system integration (data, services, automation)
## 🔥 Featured Project: SOC Lab
A focused project within this homelab that demonstrates monitoring, logging, and security concepts.
👉 [View SOC Lab Project](soc-lab/README.md)
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## 🏗️ Architecture Overview
This lab is built around three core layers:
### 🖥️ Infrastructure Layer
- Proxmox VE hypervisor
- Virtual Machines + LXC containers
- TrueNAS storage backend (ZFS, NFS, SMB)
### ☸️ Orchestration Layer
- 12-node K3s Kubernetes cluster
- Workload segmentation (ingress, data, monitoring)
- MetalLB + NGINX ingress
### 🌐 Access & Networking Layer
- VLAN segmented network (UDR)
- Nginx Proxy Manager
- Cloudflare Tunnel (zero port-forwarding)
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## 🎯 Purpose
This lab is designed to:
- Simulate production-style environments
- Build hands-on infrastructure experience
- Develop monitoring and system visibility skills
- Serve as a real-world engineering portfolio project
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## 📸 Key System Views
### 🖥️ Proxmox Infrastructure
![Proxmox](screenshots/proxmox-overview.png)
### 🖥️ Proxmox Workloads
![Proxmox](screenshots/proxmox-overview2.png)
### ☸️ K3s Cluster Nodes & Pods
![K3s Nodes](screenshots/K3s-nodes.png)
### 🌐 Reverse Proxy (Nginx Proxy Manager)
![Nginx](screenshots/NGN.png)
### 📊 Service Monitoring (Uptime Kuma)
![Uptime Kuma](screenshots/uptime-kuma.png)
### 📊 Grafana Dashboard
![Grafana](screenshots/grafana.png)
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The lab runs behind a UniFi Dream Router (UDR) with VLAN segmentation:
| Network | Subnet | Purpose |
|--------------|----------------|---------------------------------|
| Main | 10.10.10.0/24 | Daily-use devices |
| MyHomeIOT | 10.10.20.0/24 | IoT devices, TVs, consoles |
| HomeLab | 10.10.30.0/24 | Servers, services, K3s, storage |
| Guest | 10.10.99.0/24 | Guest Wi-Fi |
| Network | Subnet | Purpose |
|--------|--------|--------|
| Main | 10.10.10.0/24 | Daily-use devices |
| MyHomeIOT | 10.10.20.0/24 | IoT devices, TVs, consoles |
| HomeLab | 10.10.30.0/24 | Servers, services, K3s, storage |
| Guest | 10.10.99.0/24 | Guest Wi-Fi |
The HomeLab VLAN (10.10.30.0/24) hosts all core infrastructure.
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## 🧱 Core Components
### Proxmox VE
### 🖥️ Proxmox VE
- Main hypervisor for VMs and LXCs
- Future expansion to a Proxmox cluster (+5 nodes)
- Uses TrueNAS for shared storage (NFS / iSCSI)
See: [`proxmox/`](proxmox/)
- Uses TrueNAS for shared storage (NFS / iSCSI)
📁 See: `proxmox/`
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### TrueNAS (ZFS Storage)
### 💾 TrueNAS (ZFS Storage)
- Manages ZFS pools and datasets
- NFS exports for Proxmox VM storage
- SMB / media dataset for Jellyfin & Arr stack
See: [`truenas/`](truenas/)
- SMB / media dataset for Jellyfin & Arr stack
📁 See: `truenas/`
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### K3s Raspberry Pi Cluster
### ☸️ K3s Raspberry Pi Cluster
A 12-node K3s cluster built on Raspberry Pi hardware for orchestrating containerized workloads across the lab.
A 12-node K3s cluster (Raspberry Pis) for running:
Current and planned uses include:
- Containerized apps
- Containerized applications
- Ingress-based routing
- GitOps and helm-based workloads (future)
- Monitoring workloads
- Future GitOps and Helm-based deployments
K3s is part of the HomeLab but documented in detail in its own repo:
- https://github.com/ced4568/ced-k3s-homelab
This repo may reference that cluster and contain high-level config patterns.
📌 Full cluster repo:
https://github.com/ced4568/ced-k3s-homelab
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### Reverse Proxy & Cloudflare Tunnel
- Nginx Proxy Manager (NPM) on the HomeLab VLAN
### 🌐 Reverse Proxy & Cloudflare Tunnel
- Nginx Proxy Manager (NPM)
- Cloudflare Tunnel (no port forwarding)
- Wildcard DNS: `*.cedshomelab.com`
External access flow:
```text
**Traffic Flow:**
Internet → Cloudflare Edge → Tunnel → NPM → Internal Services
```
Docs: [`docs/Add_New_Service_Guide.md`](docs/Add_New_Service_Guide.md)
📁 Docs: `docs/Add_New_Service_Guide.md`
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### Home Automation
### 🏠 Home Automation
- Home Assistant (Proxmox VM)
- IoT isolated on MyHomeIOT VLAN
- Secure access via Cloudflare + NPM
- `trusted_proxies` configured
- Home Assistant (HA) in Proxmox
- IoT devices isolated on MyHomeIOT VLAN
- HA exposed via Cloudflare + NPM
- `trusted_proxies` configured for NPM
Config snippets: [`home-assistant/configuration-snippets/`](home-assistant/configuration-snippets/)
📁 Config: `home-assistant/`
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### Observability
### 📊 Observability (Ceds NOC)
- Prometheus scrapes metrics from:
- Proxmox
- K3s
- TrueNAS (future)
- Home Assistant / MQTT (future)
- Grafana dashboards, including a **Ced's NOC** view
The lab includes an observability stack built around:
- Prometheus for metrics collection
- Grafana for dashboards and visualization
- Uptime Kuma for service-level monitoring
Notes and dashboards: [`monitoring/`](monitoring/)
Current and planned monitoring coverage includes:
- Proxmox performance
- K3s cluster health
- Service uptime
- Infrastructure visibility improvements over time
📁 See: `monitoring/`
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## 🧭 Documentation
- **How to add a new service via NPM + Cloudflare**
[`docs/Add_New_Service_Guide.md`](docs/Add_New_Service_Guide.md)
- **Architecture diagrams (Mermaid)**
[`docs/Ced_Homelab_Diagrams.md`](docs/Ced_Homelab_Diagrams.md)
- **Roadmap / future ideas**
[`docs/roadmap.md`](docs/roadmap.md)
- Add new service: `docs/Add_New_Service_Guide.md`
- Architecture diagrams: `docs/Ced_Homelab_Diagrams.md`
- Roadmap: `docs/roadmap.md`
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## 🚀 Future Plans
- Full Proxmox cluster
- Cloudflare Zero Trust on critical services
- GitOps for K3s deployments (in ced-k3s-homelab)
- Cloudflare Zero Trust integration
- GitOps for K3s deployments
- Internal container registry
- K3s-specific wildcard routing (`*.apps.cedshomelab.com`)
- More detailed monitoring + alerting
- Visual portfolio site on:
- `chasedumphord.com` or
- `cedshome.com`
- Advanced monitoring + alerting
- Portfolio site:
- chasedumphord.com
- cedshomelab.com
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## ⚠️ Secrets & Security
## ⚠️ Security Practices
This repo **never** stores:
This repo never stores:
- API tokens
- Private keys
- Passwords
- Secret YAML files
- API tokens
- Private keys
- Passwords
- Sensitive configs
Any real config with secrets should be kept locally only, or represented here as `*.example` files.
All secrets are handled locally or via `.example` files.
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## Author
## 👤 Author
**Ced (Chase Dumphord)**
Cybersecurity / GRC / SOC • Full-Stack Dev • Homelab builder
**Chase Dumphord**
Digital Systems Engineer | Infrastructure | Data Systems | Automation
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/toochase-dumphord/
GitHub: https://github.com/ced4568