Hi, I’m Piyush 馃憢馃徎
I’m a software engineer based in Boston. This is my place away from work where I share my hobby experiences in self-hosting, 3D printing, home automation, and open source software.
Inside My Proxmox Home Lab: Two Nodes, Endless Possibilities
TL;DR: A two-node Proxmox setup powers my home lab. One node runs all my services and experiments, the other acts as a NAS. I keep things organized with VM-based IPs and rely on automated backups so I can tinker without worrying. Introduction Welcome to a tour of my Proxmox home lab! In this post, I鈥檒l walk you through all the services I run across my two-node cluster. Everything here is deployed using the excellent Proxmox Helper Scripts, which I rely on not just to spin up containers quickly but also to discover new services to experiment with. ...
Goodbye Raspberry Pi, Hello Proxmox
TL;DR: Upgraded from a single Raspberry Pi to a multi-node homelab featuring 3x HP ProDesk Mini PCs and a Lenovo ThinkCentre, running Proxmox for virtualization with Tailscale VPN for remote access. One node serves as a Windows 11 Pro workstation, while the other two form a Proxmox cluster for running self-hosted services and NAS. The Journey Begins This is my second attempt at building a homelab. My first setup was a single Raspberry Pi running a few containers, but it quickly hit its limits. This time, I鈥檓 scaling it into a more structured setup and documenting the journey along the way. ...