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HomeLab 3.0 / Build to understand

Small platform.
Big learning surface.

My space to connect infrastructure, delivery, and operations. Built around the same questions I care about at work: can I deploy it, observe it, and recover it?

Platform engineeringGitOpsReliability

Platform structure

HomeLab platform layers: foundation, delivery, platform, and visibility.FoundationVMware / vSphereDeliveryAzure DevOpsTerraform / AnsiblePlatformKubernetes / k3sArgo CDVisibilityGrafana / PrometheusVictoriaLogsHomeLab platform layers: foundation, delivery, platform, and visibility.FoundationVMware / vSphereDeliveryAzure DevOpsTerraform / AnsiblePlatformKubernetes / k3sArgo CDVisibilityGrafana / PrometheusVictoriaLogs
Planned platform structure. The rebuild and delivery workflow are in progress; this is not a live service-status view.
What each layer does

Foundation

Virtualisation and the infrastructure underneath the platform.

  • VMware
  • vSphere

Delivery

Self-hosted build agents and repeatable provisioning and configuration.

  • Azure DevOps agents
  • Terraform
  • Ansible

Platform

Container orchestration and GitOps delivery practice.

  • Kubernetes
  • k3s
  • Argo CD

Visibility

Metrics, logs, and dashboards as part of the platform.

  • Grafana
  • Prometheus
  • VictoriaLogs

Experiments & next steps

Areas I am exploring and building towards. Each will get a write-up once it has been deployed and checked.

Delivery & recovery

End-to-end CI/CD, automated deployments, rollback, and recovery scenarios.

Local AI workflows

Local LLMs, LangGraph, and retrieval experiments with Qdrant.

VR command centre

Lab experiments connecting Meta Quest, WebXR, and FastAPI.

Voice & agent experiments

Whisper, local language models, text-to-speech, LangGraph, and graph data with Neo4j.

Reliability & hardening

Continued practice with SRE scenarios, security hardening, and high availability.

Lab notebook

Leave a trail someone can follow.

Architecture decisions, deployment runbooks, and lessons from failure and recovery will live here.

Documentation in progress

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Hybrid cloud, observability, automation, or an interesting engineering challenge.

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A project, a cloud problem, or a good technical conversation. You can reach me here.