stubbornpackets
From the lab to the lake — documenting real homelab engineering
Homelab at a Glance
- Proxmox VE single node running on Intel NUC NUC13ANHi7 with 64GB RAM
- LXC containers and lightweight VMs for services
- AWS for cloud workloads and hybrid experiments
- Cisco CML VM for network simulation and testing
- Cisco ISE VM (ERS, LDAP, policy enforcement)
- Python-driven automation for identity & access
- Overlay networking (Tailscale / WireGuard)
- Terraform for declarative infrastructure
- Ansible for configuration management
- GitHub Actions for CI
- This site itself (Hugo + Cloudflare Pages)
- Ollama running local LLMs
- MLOps patterns in the homelab
- Log analysis + anomaly detection experiments
- Intelligent network automation prototypes
Core Focus Areas
Network Engineering
Cisco ISE (ERS/LDAP), Python automation, identity-driven security, Palo Alto, endpoint management.
Explore posts →Infrastructure as Code
Terraform, Ansible, Kubernetes on Proxmox, GitOps, policy-as-code, and reproducible environments.
Explore posts →ML Integration
Local LLMs (Ollama), MLOps patterns, anomaly detection, and intelligent network automation.
Explore posts →Recent Blog Posts
Site as Code
This entire notebook is infrastructure as code. Content lives in git, the site is built with Hugo, and it is deployed to Cloudflare. The long-term goal is to use Terraform and Ansible to create, publish, and update new lab notes with minimal manual work.
Lab Notebook Philosophy
This site is my public working notebook — real configs, scripts that actually ran,
network diagrams, lessons learned, and experiments integrating ML into network operations.
No fluff. Just practical knowledge from the lab to the lake.
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