Homelab Technologies & Integrations

Technologies & Integrations

• ravpower: secondary OpenWrt wifi router directly connected to the WAN Router. To be used when bifrost is unavailable. It has it's independent battery backup
• nexbox: corosync external arbiter node
  • apcupsd: service on nexbox managing the APC UPS unit via USB
• pve-cluster corosyc cluster: two node proxmox cluster with an external arbiter (nexbox)
  • Cluster nodes:
    • pve: high performance Proxmox VE cluster node
      • glusterd: glusterfs service
      • apcupsd: service on pve-lite connected to nexbox via the network
    • pve-lite: standard Proxmox VE cluster node
      • glusterd: glusterfs service
      • apcupsd: service on pve-lite connected to nexbox via the network
  • High availability groups, with live migration
    • pve_preferred: a Proxmox HA group with both of the nodes, pve with higher priority
      • VM hassio: Home Assistant OS in a VM with the following major components:
        • MariaDB for short term data storage
        • Mosquitto MQTT
        • Z-Wave JS to manage the Z-Wave mesh network using the Z-Wave Controller
    • unrestricted: a Proxmox HA group with both of the nodes (no priority)
      • VM bifrost: Debian Linux with nftables (firewall + NAT), Suricata (IDS/IPS), and dnsmasq (DNS, DHCP, Ad/Tracking Block)
      • VM dockerhost: Debian Linux with docker containers
      • VM awx: Debian Linux with Ansible AWX docker conatiners
      • VM homebridge: Debian Linux with nginx, nodejs, and homebridge (incl. smartthings, roomba, and wol plugins)
      • VM datastore: Debian Linux with TICK stack and Grafana
      • VM openvpn: Debian Linux with OpenVPN
      • VM jumpbox: Debian Linux with OpenSSH
      • VM thelounge: Debian Linux with thelounge and nginx
      • VM webos-sslbump: Ubuntu 18.04 LTS with Squid to provide web access to classic WebOS devices
      • VM mediabox: Debian Linux with a small Plex library

Next

• Cluster Design