7 posts on homelab infrastructure, AI, monitoring, and more.
How I built MyOfficeLab — a Flutter app with native Proxmox API integration, live CT metrics, Riverpod 3 state management, CEF webviews, and a cyberpunk design system — targeting both Linux desktop and iOS from one codebase.
Deploy a complete observability stack for a Proxmox cluster: node_exporter on all hosts, pve-exporter for cluster metrics, Prometheus scraping everything, and Grafana dashboards with email alerting.
Deploy Hermes Agent on Proxmox LXC — a fully autonomous AI agent with tool use, Anthropic primary routing, and OpenRouter fallback chains. Includes the Kanban integration and CLI delegation setup.
Run a Fabric 1.20.1 Minecraft server in an unprivileged Proxmox LXC container with performance mods (Lithium, Starlight, Carpet), JVM garbage collection tuning, and systemd service management.
Run local LLMs across three Proxmox LXC containers with Ollama, expose them via Open WebUI's built-in load balancer, and avoid the Docker-in-LXC pitfalls that cost me two sessions to fix.
How to assemble a production-grade Proxmox VE 9 cluster from four HP EliteDesk 705 G4 mini PCs — hardware selection, quorum strategy, firewall, and the gotchas that cost a Saturday.
Install Tailscale on one Proxmox node as a subnet router to make your entire homelab reachable from anywhere — no port forwarding, no VPN box, no dynamic DNS.