Personal Homelab

Three Proxmox machines provisioned with Terraform and configured with NixOS, chosen for reproducibility.

github.com/shuresm57/homelab

Three machines, all on Proxmox: dell (96GB, RTX 4000), hp32 (32GB), hp16 (16GB). Everything on top of them is provisioned with Terraform and configured with NixOS.

Why Nix

I chose NixOS for one reason: reproducibility. The whole system, packages, services, users, firewall rules, is described in config instead of built up by hand over time. If a machine dies or I mess something up badly enough, I rebuild it straight from the repository instead of trying to remember what I clicked six months ago.

Paired with Terraform, this actually feels like a bit of a superpower. Terraform provisions the VM, NixOS declares everything that runs on it, and together the whole homelab goes from bare metal to running services with one apply and one rebuild. No manual setup steps hiding anywhere.

What's running

  • git, on hp16: Forgejo, my own git server
  • dns, on hp16: Pi-hole for local DNS and ad blocking
  • ollama, on dell: local LLM inference using the RTX 4000

A media server, monitoring and backups are next, and Kubernetes is on the roadmap once the rest of the stack is settled.