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.

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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

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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 →