Happy Garden HomeLab

🏡 - My garden for homegrown organic software projects. 🍇🍌🍈🍉🍊🍋.

Motivation

• For fun.
• To understand Infrastructure behind my code.

Overview

Network Diagram

Hardware

• ISP: Comcast - Xfiniti
• Router:
• Switch:
• Physical Server:

Software

• Soil (hypervisor): One of {Proxmox VE, VMWare ESXi, Hyper-V}.
• Equipments (automation tools): Ansible
• Seeds: K8s, Docker
• Fruits: juicy software products <3

Setup

Bare metal setup

• This is the fun, yet could-be-expensive part. I had to discipline my emotion to not overspend on latest flashy CPU / GPU. As of the end of 2019, here are the spec for my baremetal. It is indeed similar to a gaming PC. So what? It's my garden ;).

Type	Model	Spec	Comment
CPU	AMD Ryzen 2700x	3.7 GHz 8-core 16-thread	O.C. to 4.0Ghz
RAM	Patriot 64GB DDR4	4x16GB DDR4 3200Hz	Upgrade to 64Gb if needed Done
DISK	Samsung 970 EVO+ 512GB SSD	Read/Write ~3GB/s	Planning to use Ceph

Software

• Install Proxmox.
• Automate config using Ansible

Build LOG(s)

Reference:

1. This lab is awsome! https://github.com/bradfitz/homelab
2. Lab ideas : https://b3n.org/homelab-ideas/
3. Network Diagram: https://github.com/zimmertr/Network-Diagram
4. Hyper-converged Proxmox + Ceph Cluster : https://pve.proxmox.com/pve-docs/chapter-pveceph.html
5. Storage Option: https://chris-sanders.github.io/2018-01-29-single-node-ceph/
6. Setup Port mirroting for IDS : https://santosomar.medium.com/security-onion-redhunt-os-proxmox-and-open-vswitch-6d6fbaaf0a51