Project
Mini Rack Homelab
A small home data centre in a 10 inch mini rack, my own network, servers and storage. I use this to teach myself the infrastructure real companies run on, and to host my tools round the clock.
I’m a kinaesthetic learner. Although I’ve read extensively about enterprise infrastructure, I learn far more by working with it directly. That, combined with having real services to run, led me to build a small data centre at home where I control both the hardware and software.
I’ve tried my best to setup my homelab the way they would in industry, with a clustered hypervisor, distributed storage and a Kubernetes cluster running on top. It is also where my wine-trading software and other services actually run.
The posts below explore what is in the rack, why each component is there, and what runs on the hardware.