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● 05 · systems engineer · 2024 — present
homelab infrastructure
raspberry pi 5 nas on openmediavault with docker — time machine backups, smb shares, ssh, pi-hole, tailscale mesh, dns, service debugging, and bare-metal container/network troubleshooting.
- docker
- raspberry pi
- linux
- tailscale
- dns
- smb
a small homelab that exists because i wanted a single source of truth for my files and a network-level adblock that survives reboots.
- storage: openmediavault on a pi 5 with usb-c ssd, exposed as both smb and a time machine target. nightly snapshot rotation via shell scripts.
- dns: pi-hole as the upstream resolver for the network, blocklists curated by category.
- mesh: tailscale links every device i own back into the lan without exposing ports to the open internet.
- services: a handful of docker containers — nginx as a reverse proxy, uptime-kuma for monitoring, watchtower for image updates.
mostly written for me, but a small group of friends now route through the pi-hole too.