A Homelab That Deploys with git push

For the last several months I’ve started running my own homelab on a single cheap server machine sitting on my home LAN. The primary motivation for this was to familiarise myself with running a server and multiple services on bare metal and understand how to manage such infrastructure. Infrastructure I chose a refurbished Dell Optiplex 7040 Mini PC to host the infrastructure. As multiple workloads were expected, I chose to install Proxmox VE on this device. Proxmox is a Debian derivative Linux distribution that is designed to act as a hypervisor for VMs and lightweight Linux Containers (LXCs) from a common compute and storage infrastructure. It can be used to manage a data center with multiple physical hosts, but in my setup there is only one server. ...

May 1, 2026 · Suhas Karnik