The Story

What started as a simple Raspberry Pi running Pi-hole evolved into a full production-grade infrastructure. The goal was to learn by doing: understanding how enterprise systems work by building them myself.

Current Stack

• Virtualization: Proxmox VE
• Orchestration: Kubernetes
• Containers: Docker
• Monitoring: Grafana, Prometheus, InfluxDB
• Reverse Proxy: Caddy, FRP
• Auth: Authentik (OIDC)

What I Learned

Building infrastructure from scratch taught me more than any course could. Debugging network issues at 2am, recovering from failed upgrades, designing for redundancy - these experiences shaped how I approach technical problems.