Doing more with less.
what the lab runs ↓
What this is
theTinyLab is a FOSS-only homelab run like a small business — its own certificates, DNS, identity, forge and firewalls, built in the open and documented honestly.
About the lab →What it hosts
Internal certificate authority
step-ca + theTinyCA web UI
deployed
Internal DNS
Technitium pair · custom blockers + DoH
deployed
External DNS
Cloudflare
deployed
Backups
Proxmox Backup Server · 3-2-1
deployed
Patch monitoring
PatchMon
deployed
Inference engine
Ollama
deployed
How it's shaped
One zone per trust domain: a hardened edge, an infrastructure core, a services ring and an isolated Kubernetes platform — with exactly three ways in.
Architecture →