Purple Plum Playhouse

The home lab. A small fleet of compute, storage, and network gear being brought back up from a wiped state — rebuilt to be declarative and hands-off: edit a config, push it, watch it appear. The intent is to manage it the way the work infrastructure is managed (config-as-source, pushed out by tooling — ideally the vivarta-drones engine), not by hand.

Tracked in the Home Lab Resurrection detective case.

What's here

• 2× Intel NUCs running Proxmox VE 8.3 (the compute) — see ppp-nucs.
• 2× NAS (QNAP + TerraMaster) for storage — see ppp-nas.
• 2× Pi-hole + a Raspberry Pi (display node candidate), a printer, a Hue bridge — see ppp-network-map.
• Network: Bell Fibe exit, ASUS Wi-Fi 6, LAN 192.168.50.0/24. EdgeRouter X on the bench if the exit/DNS/DHCP needs to move off the Bell router.

Goals

• Declarative Proxmox — VMs and CTs from config (Terraform/Ansible/drones), no click-ops. Push a service to a VM by writing a config + running one command.
• DNS/DHCP — consolidate the Pi-holes, pull DHCP off the Bell router onto controlled infra.
• CI/CD — a small Kubernetes cluster for Jenkins (mirrors the work setup); maybe run some wanderland-loss services locally.
• Home services — resurrect an RSS reader; the usual self-hosted stack.
• Display — the Pi drives an auto-refreshing dashboard on a monitor; keep it as a dedicated display node, or do GPU passthrough from a VM.