This site documents my complete home lab journey end-to-end: designing the environment, provisioning servers, deploying a production-grade RKE2 cluster on KVM-based worker nodes, enabling virtualized GPUs for AI workloads, integrating Ceph for resilient storage, and tuning every component for real-world performance. Each post captures the exact steps, configurations, and insights gathered along the way, with the goal of creating a transparent and reproducible reference for anyone building a similar setup.
Note to Returning Visitors
I’ve started reorganizing the site over the last couple of days, and several older posts are temporarily hidden while they’re being cleaned up. Updated versions—especially the guides on Ceph cluster setup, mail server configuration, and other foundational topics—will be restored shortly. Thanks for your patience while I streamline everything.
Management Server for Home Lab
Install KVM and build custom cloud image
Orchestrating VMs using scripts and templates
Ubuntu 22.04 Repository Mirror