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A living record of everything in the lab — configs, runbooks, network diagrams, and step-by-step guides.


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Everything in the homelab gets documented — configs, gotchas, update notes, and full setup guides. Whether it's a fresh Pi-hole install, Cloudflare Tunnel routing, or rebuilding Proxmox from scratch, it's written down here. This page is the quick overview of what's running at **The Grays**. For deep dives, follow the linked guides or browse by project below.

Raspberry Pi 4

Hardware
  • Model Raspberry Pi 4
  • OS Raspberry Pi OS
  • Network Wired ethernet, static IP
  • Role Primary services host
  • Management Portainer Stacks
Services running
Ghost 5
MySQL 8.0
n8n
Homepage
Portainer
Uptime Kuma
Home Assistant
Nginx Proxy Manager

Raspberry Pi 3 — DNS

Hardware
  • Model Raspberry Pi
  • OS Raspberry Pi OS
  • Network Wired ethernet, static IP
  • Role Network-wide DNS filtering
Services running
Pi-hole v6

HP ProDesk G4 400 SFF

Hardware
  • Model HP ProDesk G4 400 SFF
  • OS Ubuntu 24.04 LTS / Proxmox VE
  • CPU Intel Core i5
  • RAM 16 GB
  • Storage 512 GB SSD
  • Role Virtualization + tunnel edge
Services running
Proxmox VE
Cloudflare Tunnel
Docker VMs
Webmin

UniFi Stack.

Hardware
  • Router UniFi Cloud Gateway Fiber
  • Switches UniFi managed switches
  • Access Points UniFi APs
  • Subnets Main LAN + server VLAN
Access & Security
  • Remote access Tailscale subnet routing
  • Public exposure Cloudflare Tunnel only
  • Open ports Zero — tunnel handles everything
  • SSL Wildcard cert via Cloudflare DNS
  • DNS filtering Pi-hole v6 network-wide

Infrastructure

Active Projects.

Everything running in the lab right now — click any card for the full guide.

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Pi-hole in Docker
Network-wide DNS filtering and ad blocking. Blocks ads and trackers at the DNS level for every device on the network.
DNS Docker Network
● Running
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Ubuntu Server
Base server setup with hardening, Docker engine, and core utility services. The foundation everything else runs on.
Linux Ubuntu Server
● Running
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Proxmox VE
Bare-metal hypervisor running VMs and LXC containers. Manages the entire lab compute layer.
Virtualization Proxmox Homelab
● Running
GitHub Projects
Open-source configs, Docker Compose files, and scripts for homelab setups. All public on GitHub.
Open Source GitHub
↗ GitHub
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The Grays Lab
Network topology, hardware inventory, and the physical layout behind every service documented here.
Network Hardware
● Running

In Progress

Currently Working On.

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