← Work indexoperating
Case study · 2026
Homelab Infrastructure
A power-conscious platform for deploying, observing, recovering, and backing up independent software.
- Role
- Architect and operator
- Outcome
- An always-on platform that gives the workshop repeatable deployment, identity, ingress, storage, and recovery practices.
- Capabilities
- Infrastructure · Reliability
- Stack
- Debian · Docker Compose · Cloudflare
Case record
The infrastructure is deliberately small: use the least expensive machine that can operate a service reliably, keep state recoverable, and wake power-hungry storage only when work requires it. Public descriptions focus on operating principles rather than the private network topology.