My Homelab Setup
Kunle Ogungbamila January 10, 2026 1 min read
I’ve been running a homelab for about a year now. Here’s what I’ve built and what I’ve learned.
The Hardware
Nothing exotic. A repurposed mini PC running Proxmox, with a few VMs for different workloads. A NAS for storage. A managed switch with a VLAN for IoT devices.
The goal was never the hardware. The goal was having a place to experiment without consequences.
The Software Stack
- Proxmox — hypervisor
- TrueNAS — storage
- Pi-hole — DNS-based ad blocking
- Tailscale — mesh VPN for remote access
- Portainer — container management
What I’ve Learned
Running infrastructure at home teaches you things that reading never does. You learn why backups matter when you break something. You learn why network segmentation matters when you accidentally expose a service. You learn why monitoring matters when you don’t know what’s failing.
It’s the best systems education I’ve had since university.