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Homelab Wiki

Documentation for a self-hosted homelab running entirely on Docker Compose. This wiki covers the why behind each service, how they're configured, and what I learned running them — the repo itself has the raw docker-compose.yml files.

Contents

• Architecture and Hardware
• Monitoring Stack
• Network Services
• Media Automation
• Workflow Automation
• Storage Health
• Lessons Learned

At a glance

Host	Ubuntu Server
Orchestration	Docker Compose, one stack per service
Management	Portainer
Monitoring	Prometheus + Grafana + cAdvisor + node-exporter
Network	Pi-hole (DNS filtering), Samba (file sharing)
Automation	n8n
Media	Plex + Sonarr/Radarr/Prowlarr + qBittorrent
Disk health	Hard Disk Sentinel

This is a running system, not a demo — screenshots throughout this wiki are from the live dashboards.