DK Lab
This is my home lab.
It pretty simple for now. I will add updates here as it grows.
April 2025
I got a patch panel to start cleaning up some of the cables.
I got more services running on it:
- Navidrome
- DNS server with ad/malware sink
- Samba file share (still need to debug some issues with windows connecting to a few of the shares)
Working on next:
- Adding home assistant to manage IoT
- Get a 1U server to set up as a router/firewall (might move dns server to this too)
- Add VPN so I can access file share from outside the network
- Add video streaming/media playing
- Remote/cloud backup (setting up a raspberry pi velcroed to a external hdd. once set up will have my brother run it at his place)
- Set up the dev server with git/gitlab
- Clean up documentation and localhost them as md book.
Rack layout
- 01# NULL
- 02# NULL
- 03# ═ Patch Panel
- 04# ═ Switch
- 05# ═ NULL
- 06# ═ Power Strip (1F + 8B)
- 07# NULL
- 08# NULL
- 09# ╔ NAS
- 10# ╚ Shelf
- 11# NULL
- 12# NULL
- 13# ╔ Dev
- 14# ╚ Shelf 2
- 15# NULL
- 16# NULL
- 17# NULL
- 18# NULL
- 19# NULL
March 2025
Its mostly parts I got from a local liquidation sale. I added some casters to the rack so I could roll it around.
- 19U 18" depth rack
- NULL
- ⎨ Switch
- ⎨ Power strip
- NULL
- NULL
- ⎧ Shelf (Dev Server)
- ⎩ ...
- NULL
- ⎧ Shelf (NAS/Docker)
- ⎩ ...
- NULL
- NULL
- NULL
- NULL
- NULL
- NULL
- NULL
- NULL
- NULL
Both running NixOS.
The Dev server is for a remote VS Code project environment.
The NAS is mostly just testing right now, but is running a few small samba shares, and a navidrome music server.