Homelab Infrastructure

This homelab is a practical learning environment designed to mirror real-world IT infrastructure patterns. The focus is on clean design, documentation, and repeatable builds — not just experimentation.

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🎯 Goals

• Practice enterprise-style infrastructure design at small scale
• Build and document systems as if they were production
• Learn by designing, breaking, fixing, and documenting

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🧱 Core Components

Virtualization

• Proxmox VE as the primary hypervisor
• Dedicated management and server networks
• Standardized VM naming and roles

Networking

• pfSense firewall
• VLAN-based network segmentation
• Explicit firewall rules between trust zones

Documentation

• GitHub for source-controlled documentation
• Markdown-based docs for clarity and portability
• Change tracking and design decisions logged

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🗂️ Network Segmentation (High Level)

• Management VLAN
  Hypervisors, network devices, admin-only access

• Server VLAN
  Internal services and application workloads

• IoT / Restricted VLANs
  Limited east-west access, controlled via firewall rules

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📌 Status

This environment is actively evolving.
Design decisions, diagrams, and configurations are added as the lab grows.

👉 View the infrastructure repository

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🔮 Planned Areas

• Monitoring and alerting
• Automation and configuration management
• Identity and access controls
• Backup and recovery strategies