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Running a homelab like production

My homelab started as a pile of containers I poked at until they worked. This series follows what changed once I treated it like production: every change goes through code, alerts tell me when something breaks, backups get restored on purpose, and tuning starts from a measurement.

  1. Running a one-server homelab like production

    Why run a one-server homelab like production infrastructure?

  2. Structuring an Ansible repo for a one-server homelab

    How do I structure an Ansible repo for a single-server homelab?

  3. Homelab deploys with Forgejo Actions and Semaphore

    How do I deploy a homelab from git with Forgejo Actions and Semaphore?

  4. Time Machine backups on a Samba share in Docker

    How do I back up a Mac to a Samba share with Time Machine, and know when it silently stops?

  5. What the ZFS ARC does with your RAM, and what a cap costs

    How much RAM does the ZFS ARC take on a homelab server, and what changes when you cap it?