[{"content":"","date":"23 June 2026","externalUrl":null,"permalink":"/tags/architecture/","section":"Tags","summary":"","title":"Architecture","type":"tags"},{"content":"","date":"23 June 2026","externalUrl":null,"permalink":"/categories/","section":"Categories","summary":"","title":"Categories","type":"categories"},{"content":"Welcome — this is the public build log for family homelab 2026: multi-site home infrastructure built to enterprise standards (deliberately over-engineered), and documented openly so others can learn from the decisions, the trade-offs, and the inevitable mistakes.\n","date":"23 June 2026","externalUrl":null,"permalink":"/","section":"family homelab 2026","summary":"Welcome — this is the public build log for family homelab 2026: multi-site home infrastructure built to enterprise standards (deliberately over-engineered), and documented openly so others can learn from the decisions, the trade-offs, and the inevitable mistakes.\n","title":"family homelab 2026","type":"page"},{"content":"","date":"23 June 2026","externalUrl":null,"permalink":"/tags/homelab/","section":"Tags","summary":"","title":"Homelab","type":"tags"},{"content":"","date":"23 June 2026","externalUrl":null,"permalink":"/categories/journey/","section":"Categories","summary":"","title":"Journey","type":"categories"},{"content":"","date":"23 June 2026","externalUrl":null,"permalink":"/posts/","section":"Journey","summary":"","title":"Journey","type":"posts"},{"content":"","date":"23 June 2026","externalUrl":null,"permalink":"/tags/kickoff/","section":"Tags","summary":"","title":"Kickoff","type":"tags"},{"content":"","date":"23 June 2026","externalUrl":null,"permalink":"/tags/","section":"Tags","summary":"","title":"Tags","type":"tags"},{"content":"This is the first entry in an open build log. The plan: a family homelab spread across multiple sites, built as if it were enterprise infrastructure — then documented in public, decisions and all.\nWhy over-engineer a home lab? # Because the goal isn\u0026rsquo;t just \u0026ldquo;self-host a few services.\u0026rdquo; It\u0026rsquo;s to learn and apply the patterns that make real infrastructure dependable: redundancy, automation, observability, and security — at a scale where the stakes are low but the lessons are real.\nGuiding principles # Enterprise-grade, deliberately over-opinionated. Strong defaults beat endless choice. Resilient \u0026amp; scalable — no single points of failure. Local-first for critical services — DNS, time, home automation, internet, and the VPN must keep working at each site even if everything else is down. Standardize on Debian, with a small set of sanctioned appliance exceptions. Privacy \u0026amp; sovereignty — know exactly what data leaves the house, and prefer European, open-source building blocks. The stack, at a glance # Automation: Ansible (config) with infrastructure-as-code in Git. Networking: a self-hosted mesh overlay across sites, dual-stack with IPv6 preferred. Edge \u0026amp; ingress: an HA reverse proxy, with portless tunnels for anything public. Secrets \u0026amp; PKI: a self-hosted vault that doubles as the internal certificate authority. Workloads: home automation, a Kubernetes cluster, and event streaming. Observability: metrics, dashboards, and alerting — including a watchdog that watches the monitoring itself. What\u0026rsquo;s next # Upcoming posts will walk through the first building blocks: the cloud edge node, the automation baseline, and the secrets foundation — one decision at a time.\nFollow along.\n","date":"23 June 2026","externalUrl":null,"permalink":"/posts/001-why-a-family-homelab/","section":"Journey","summary":"Kicking off a multi-site, over-engineered-on-purpose family homelab: the goals, the principles, and the stack at a glance.","title":"Why build a family homelab — the enterprise way?","type":"posts"},{"content":"family homelab 2026 is a multi-site family homelab built to enterprise standards and documented openly.\nThis site is the public journey — the narrative, decisions, and lessons. The actual configuration lives in a private infrastructure-as-code repository; nothing sensitive (addresses, topology, secrets) is published here.\nBuilt with open-source, European-leaning tools wherever it makes sense.\n","externalUrl":null,"permalink":"/about/","section":"family homelab 2026","summary":"family homelab 2026 is a multi-site family homelab built to enterprise standards and documented openly.\nThis site is the public journey — the narrative, decisions, and lessons. The actual configuration lives in a private infrastructure-as-code repository; nothing sensitive (addresses, topology, secrets) is published here.\n","title":"About","type":"page"}]