Purpose & Goals
To create a self-directed learning environment — Experience beats observation. What I hope to get better at:
- Production-grade technologies
- System design and DevOps practices
- Automation and scripting
- Technical documentation design & teaching those concepts
- Creating useful services for myself (like this site!)
Hardware
- CPU: AMD Ryzen 9 5950X (16C / 32T, x86_64)
- Memory: 128GB (total)
- Storage:
• 1x 2 TB NVMe SSD
• Proxmox VE default LVM layout
• 96 GB root volume, 8 GB swap
• 1.7 TB LVM-thin pool for VM disks- VM 100 disk: 16 GB
- VM 101 disk: 32 GB
- Network: Dual 1 GbE Ethernet NICs (1 active)
- OS: Proxmox VE 9.1 (Bare Metal)
Architecture
Network Topology
Observability
GitOps
Services
Core Infrastructure
| Service | Purpose | URL/Access | Stack | Exposure |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Proxmox | Virtualization | 10.0.0.10 | Bare metal | LAN |
| PiVPN | VPN | x.ptaszek.studio | VM | Public (UDP) |
| PiHole | DNS server + AD blocker | 10.0.0.159 | VM | LAN |
| Traefik | Reverse-proxy | 10.0.0.206:8080 | Container | LAN |
User Services
| Service | Purpose | URL/Access | Stack | Exposure |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Dockerized-Quartz | Site hosting + building | ptaszek.studio | Container | Public (HTTP/S) |
| Calibre web | E-book management | 10.0.0.206:8083 | Container | Internal |
Observability
| Service | Purpose | URL/Access | Stack | Exposure |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Prometheus | Metrics aggregation | prometheus:9090 | Container | LAN |
| Grafana | Dashboards | grafana.ptaszek.studio | Container | Public (HTTP/S) |
| Loki | Logs aggregation | loki:3100 | Container | LAN |
| Promtail | Log shipper | — | Systemd | LAN |
| Node Exporter | Metrics shipper | — | Systemd | LAN |
| cAdvisor | Container Metrics Collection | cAdvisor:8080 | Container | Internal |
Docs & Version Control
| Service | Purpose | URL/Access | Stack | Exposure |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Gitea | Version control | gitea:3000 | Container | Internal |
| Gitea-runner | Gitea CI/CD | — | Container | Internal |
| Postgres | Gitea database | postgres:5432 | Container | Internal |
| Quartz-docs | Documentation site | docs.ptaszek.studio | Container | Public (HTTP/S) |