Homelab

I run a modeest homelab mostly powered by Raspberry Pis and Ubiquiti Unifi networking equipment.

• 4 x Raspberry Pis (1 for Home ASsistant, 3 for Kubernetes)
• 1 x Topton N100 SBC
• Unifi Dream Machine Pro SE
• Unifi USW Pro Max 16

Home Assistant

Technically, Home Assistant is a production application. I certainly get the wife asking what's happened when its down.

Unifi Networking

I settled on Unifi network gear as a middle ground between mainstream consumer networking equipment and full DIY OpenWrt or similar. A few requirements needed to be met:

• Support for VLANs. Nothing super fancy, mainly segregation between IoT, guest, and homelab equipment.
• Simple management. The Unifi Console allows remote management, which has been useful during the rare occassion that we've had a network issue and I've been away from home.
• PoE. Using low-voltage PoE to power access points and cameras is significantaly easier than having to run 240v cable or rely on batteries.

The biggest surprise feature was Teleport VPN. It is trivial to set up and is great for remotely accessing the internal network. Very useful for watching UK streams from abroad!

Kubernetes Cluster

TrueNAS

TrueNAS is the latest edition to the homelab. Like Home Assitant, this is a production service, however it isn't "wife-facing" so the impact of downtime is limited. All storage is sync'd to S3-compatible storage, so despite the drives being 10-years old and having sector faults, I'm not concerned about data loss. Currently, its only storing local copies of content stored on cloud providers or video game clips.

Cloudflare

Cloudflare is my domain registrar, DNS provider, and tunneller for internal