Homelab

From a single Pi to a full home lab - the journey continues.

What started as a single Raspberry Pi running basic services has grown into a Ugreen NASync DXP4800 Plus running 37 Docker containers: media, photos, passwords, DNS and smart home, all self-hosted and only reachable over Tailscale.

Current Home Lab Stack

Media

Jellyfin - media server with hardware transcoding
Jellyseerr - requests and discovery
Navidrome - music streaming
Calibre-Web - ebook library
Sonarr, Radarr, Lidarr - TV, movie and music automation
Prowlarr - indexer manager, with FlareSolverr
Bazarr - subtitles
qBittorrent & SABnzbd - downloaders
Recyclarr - TRaSH guide quality profiles
Decluttarr - clears stalled downloads
Tdarr - re-encodes the library to HEVC

Home & Privacy

Immich - photos and videos, with face recognition
Vaultwarden - password manager
AdGuard Home - network-wide DNS and ad blocking
Homebridge - HomeKit bridge

Games

RomM - game library manager

Network & Security

Tailscale - the only way in from outside
Caddy - reverse proxy and TLS
Gluetun - VPN tunnel for download traffic
ClamAV - scans downloads and the library

Monitoring & Upkeep

Autoheal - restarts unhealthy containers
Diun - notifies me about image updates
Custom watchdogs - health, memory and crash alerts via Pushover

The Journey

This setup represents countless hours of learning, troubleshooting, and experimenting. Every service taught me something new - VPN namespaces, reverse proxies, health checks and alerting. It keeps growing.