HomeLab¶
🧪 Workshop Bench¶
This is the workshop bench.
Lab is where I keep the useful experiments: container recipes, service sandboxes, and notes from trying things the slightly messy way before they become polished enough to graduate into a full project.
Some of these pages document stacks I actually use. Others exist because I wanted a reproducible way to test a tool, compare a pattern, or remind future-me why a certain config knob mattered.
This is the messy-but-useful part
Not everything in here is polished, and that is kind of the point.
I use this section to keep the reasoning next to the config, hopefully the useful bits do not disappear into old files and half-remembered setup notes.
🔍 Useful Messes¶
- Small infrastructure blueprints
- Self-hosted service experiments
- Container patterns I reuse across projects
- Notes on environment variables, volumes, networks, and operational gotchas
📚 Current Corners¶
Docker Lab¶
A curated set of Docker Compose recipes grouped by purpose instead of dumped one file per page.
You will find:
- Databases and stateful services
- Collaboration and app platforms
- AI and automation stacks
- Media and archive tools
- Edge, proxy, and operations utilities
📝 Notes Worth Keeping¶
Raw config and compose files are handy, but they do not explain much on their own.
The goal here is to document the how and why behind them: what each service is good at, what the configuration is trying to achieve, and which parts I would revisit in a more production-shaped setup.