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# 🧠 Ced’s HomeLab (Enterprise Infrastructure & Monitoring Lab)
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A production-style homelab designed to simulate real-world infrastructure, system monitoring, and service delivery.
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This environment functions as a **personal datacenter**, combining virtualization, Kubernetes orchestration, observability, and secure external access.
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---
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## 🚀 What This Lab Demonstrates
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- Infrastructure design (Proxmox + virtualized services)
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- Kubernetes orchestration (12-node K3s cluster)
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- Network segmentation (VLAN architecture)
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- Monitoring & observability (Grafana, Prometheus, Uptime Kuma)
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- Secure service exposure (Cloudflare Tunnels + reverse proxy)
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- Real-world system integration (data, services, automation)
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## 🏗️ Architecture Overview
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This lab is built around three core layers:
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### 🖥️ Infrastructure Layer
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- Proxmox VE hypervisor
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- Virtual Machines + LXC containers
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- TrueNAS storage backend (ZFS, NFS, SMB)
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### ☸️ Orchestration Layer
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- 12-node K3s Kubernetes cluster
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- Workload segmentation (ingress, data, monitoring)
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- MetalLB + NGINX ingress
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### 🌐 Access & Networking Layer
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- VLAN segmented network (UDR)
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- Nginx Proxy Manager
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- Cloudflare Tunnel (zero port-forwarding)
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## 🎯 Purpose
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This lab is designed to:
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- Simulate production-style environments
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- Build hands-on infrastructure experience
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- Develop monitoring and system visibility skills
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- Serve as a real-world engineering portfolio project
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## 📸 Key System Views
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### 🖥️ Proxmox Infrastructure
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### 🖥️ Proxmox Infrastructure
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### ☸️ K3s Cluster Nodes
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### 🌐 Reverse Proxy (Nginx Proxy Manager)
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### 📊 Service Monitoring (Uptime Kuma)
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## 🌐 Network & VLANs
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The lab runs behind a UniFi Dream Router (UDR) with VLAN segmentation:
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| Network | Subnet | Purpose |
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| Main | 10.10.10.0/24 | Daily-use devices |
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| MyHomeIOT | 10.10.20.0/24 | IoT devices, TVs, consoles |
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| HomeLab | 10.10.30.0/24 | Servers, services, K3s, storage |
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| Guest | 10.10.99.0/24 | Guest Wi-Fi |
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The HomeLab VLAN (10.10.30.0/24) hosts all core infrastructure.
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## 🧱 Core Components
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### 🖥️ Proxmox VE
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- Main hypervisor for VMs and LXCs
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- Future expansion to a Proxmox cluster (+5 nodes)
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- Uses TrueNAS for shared storage (NFS / iSCSI)
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📁 See: `proxmox/`
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### 💾 TrueNAS (ZFS Storage)
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- Manages ZFS pools and datasets
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- NFS exports for Proxmox VM storage
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- SMB / media dataset for Jellyfin & Arr stack
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📁 See: `truenas/`
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### ☸️ K3s Raspberry Pi Cluster
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A 12-node K3s cluster built on Raspberry Pi hardware for orchestrating containerized workloads across the lab.
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Current and planned uses include:
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- Containerized applications
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- Ingress-based routing
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- Monitoring workloads
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- Future GitOps and Helm-based deployments
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📌 Full cluster repo:
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https://github.com/ced4568/ced-k3s-homelab
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### 🌐 Reverse Proxy & Cloudflare Tunnel
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- Nginx Proxy Manager (NPM)
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- Cloudflare Tunnel (no port forwarding)
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- Wildcard DNS: `*.cedshomelab.com`
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**Traffic Flow:**
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Internet → Cloudflare Edge → Tunnel → NPM → Internal Services
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📁 Docs: `docs/Add_New_Service_Guide.md`
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### 🏠 Home Automation
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- Home Assistant (Proxmox VM)
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- IoT isolated on MyHomeIOT VLAN
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- Secure access via Cloudflare + NPM
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- `trusted_proxies` configured
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📁 Config: `home-assistant/`
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### 📊 Observability (Ced’s NOC)
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The lab includes an observability stack built around:
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- Prometheus for metrics collection
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- Grafana for dashboards and visualization
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- Uptime Kuma for service-level monitoring
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Current and planned monitoring coverage includes:
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- Proxmox performance
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- K3s cluster health
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- Service uptime
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- Infrastructure visibility improvements over time
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📁 See: `monitoring/`
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## 🧭 Documentation
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- Add new service: `docs/Add_New_Service_Guide.md`
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- Architecture diagrams: `docs/Ced_Homelab_Diagrams.md`
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- Roadmap: `docs/roadmap.md`
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## 🚀 Future Plans
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- Full Proxmox cluster
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- Cloudflare Zero Trust integration
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- GitOps for K3s deployments
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- Internal container registry
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- Advanced monitoring + alerting
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- Portfolio site:
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- chasedumphord.com
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- cedshomelab.com
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## ⚠️ Security Practices
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This repo never stores:
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- API tokens
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- Private keys
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- Passwords
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- Sensitive configs
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All secrets are handled locally or via `.example` files.
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## 👤 Author
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**Chase Dumphord**
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Digital Systems Engineer | Infrastructure | Data Systems | Automation
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LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/toochase-dumphord/
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GitHub: https://github.com/ced4568
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