---
title: "Welcome to my homelab"
date: 2026-03-03
weight: 1
draft: false
description: "A glimpse into what novicelab is."
summary: "A glimpse into what novicelab is."
tags: ["homelab", "mini pc", "DevOps", "SWE"]
# series: ["homelab"]
# series_order: 1
---
![novicelab.io infra](./img/Homelab_2026-03-02_02.06.55.jpeg)

Not much, but it'serviceable.

## Why a homelab?
I needed an environment to break and fix things safely. So far, it's been fun. 

## What's running on it?
I have a small kubernetes cluster and a separate server for development.
Services that are currently running are:
- Keycloak - SSO
- Opencloud - Private cloud
- Hugo - This
- Bookstack - For my docs
- Obsidian - Notes
- Plane - Project management
- Nginx - Proxy
- Haproxy - K8S cluster proxy
- Minio - Object Storage
- Databases
    - Postgres
    - MariaDB
    - MySQL
    - CouchDB

## What's in the pipeline?
- CI/CD to streamline development
- Monitoring using Grafana
- Analytics using Matomo
- Mail server using mailcow 

## What can you find here?
I'll update this site with docs of what I've deployed and any new learnings I find interesting.