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You won't find theoretical fluff here. Every architecture, script, and configuration has been battle-tested in a live environment.

Network Topology Diagram

Complex Architectures

Detailed VLAN segmentation and reverse proxy routing maps.

Grafana Dashboard

Complete Observability

Pre-configured Prometheus and Grafana stacks included.

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The Setup

The very rig where this book was conceived and tested.

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rc@homelab:~$ git clone https://github.com/homelabbook Cloning into 'homelabbook'... remote: Enumerating objects: 452, done. remote: Counting objects: 100% (452/452), done. Receiving objects: 100% (452/452), 4.2 MB | 12.1 MB/s, done. rc@homelab:~$ cd homelabbook && docker compose up -d [+] Running 8/8 ✔ Network core_net Created ✔ Container traefik Started ✔ Container pihole Started
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