Homelab.

A Proxmox hypervisor running declarative LXC containers, provisioned with OpenTofu and configured with Ansible. Plus a workstation for everything else. Named after planets from Asimov's Foundation.

Helicon

Primary Workstation

CPU: AMD Ryzen 9 9950X3D — 16c/32t

RAM: 64GB

GPU: NVIDIA RTX 5090, 32GB VRAM

Storage: 1.8TB NVMe (LUKS + LVM)

OS: Arch Linux

Trantor

Proxmox Hypervisor

CPU: Intel Core i9-9900K — 8c/16t

RAM: 32GB DDR4

GPU: AMD RX 7800 XT (shared into LXCs)

Boot: NVMe (rpool)

Data: ~22TB ZFS RAIDZ2 (tank)

OS: Proxmox VE 9.x (Debian 13)

Network.

Router: Ubiquiti UniFi WiFi Pro 7

Ingress: Tailscale mesh + Caddy reverse proxy (LAN only)

DNS + ad-block: AdGuard Home (network-wide)

Provisioning: OpenTofu (bpg/proxmox provider) + Ansible

Application Stack.

Each service runs in its own LXC. Compose files bind-mounted from the host for quick iteration.

Platform

caddy Reverse proxy for all internal services

authentik SSO / identity provider (OIDC)

openbao Secrets engine (OSS Vault fork)

vaultwarden Self-hosted password manager

adguard DNS + network-wide ad-block

Apps

jellyfin + *arr Media server with GPU-shared transcoding

wolf Games on Whales — Moonlight-compatible streaming

homarr Service dashboard / launcher

dockge UI for managing compose stacks

Observability

beszel Host + service metrics and dashboards

gatus Uptime / health checks with alerting

Backups

pbs Proxmox Backup Server — VM + LXC snapshots