Software & Services

This section documents software, services, and applications running in the homelab.

Design principles: See Lab Philosophy.

Services

• Backup and Recovery Architecture active · reference · verified 2026-07-19

  How guest backups, same-rack secondary copies, retention, and restore validation fit together in the homelab.

• DNS active · snapshot · verified 2026-07-20

  DNS resolution, authoritative zones, and ad-blocking via Unbound on a redundant pair of LXC containers.

• Local Inference Stack Architecture active · reference · verified 2026-07-19

  How a shared model front door, fast and deep vLLM lanes, and fail-closed promotion gates fit together.

• Monitoring & Observability Architecture active · reference · verified 2026-07-20

  How infrastructure polling, service metrics, centralized logs, watchdogs, signal transport, and durable incidents fit together.

• Ops Console Architecture active · reference · verified 2026-07-19

  How health snapshots, producer events, incidents, freshness watchdogs, and quiet escalation form a private operations cockpit.

• RAG Pipeline Architecture active · reference · verified 2026-07-19

  How source files become citation-bearing retrieval results for local agents without turning generated answers into source truth.

Documentation Status

This section is under active development. Pages will be added as services are documented.