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Virtualization
Proxmox VE, virtual machines, Linux containers, storage, backups, clustering, and infrastructure management.
Technical Lab Journal
HOMELAB / INFRASTRUCTURE / NETWORKING / LINUX
Building, breaking,and fixing infrastructure.
I'm Cole Stephens. This is my technical lab journal where I document the projects I'm building, the problems I encounter, how I troubleshoot them, and what I learn along the way.
THE LAB
What I'm Working With
Hands-on infrastructure projects built around a continuously evolving home lab environment.
02
Networking
OPNsense, VLANs, routing, DNS, VPNs, firewall policies, wireless networking, and troubleshooting.
03
Self-Hosting
Docker, reverse proxies, monitoring, media services, password management, and internal applications.
04
Automation & Monitoring
Home Assistant, Prometheus, Grafana, alerting, scripting, and automating repetitive infrastructure tasks.
LAB JOURNAL
Documenting the process, not just the result.
Each entry focuses on a real project or problem: the goal, the implementation, what went wrong, how I diagnosed it, and what I learned from the process.
$ whoami
cole
$ cat current-focus.txt
virtualization
networking
observability
self-hosting
automation
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