Compute Server
Containers · GPU workloads| OS | Debian 13 Trixie |
|---|---|
| CPU | AMD Ryzen 9 3950X |
| GPU | NVIDIA RTX 4060 |
| RAM | 128 GB DDR4 |
| Boot | 1 TB Samsung 970 EVO Plus |
| Hot data | 1 TB Samsung 970 EVO Plus |
| Backup | Seagate Exos X18 · 18 TB |
Systems Engineer · celyrian.com
Hey, I'm Celyrian.
I run my own corner of the internet.
Mail, DNS, git, identity, media, this site: all self-hosted on my own hardware.Self-taught through ten-plus years of breaking Linux and rebuilding it better.Work and hobby are the same thing here, just with different uptime targets.
01whoami
The short version
I'm a self-taught systems engineer. Most of what I know I learned the hard way: breaking things in my homelab, figuring out how to put them back together, then doing it again but properly.
My comfort zone is the boundary between operations and security: containerized deployments, hardened edges, identity and certificates, storage that never loses a byte. A lot of my newer skills came from taking full-stack services on Kubernetes end to end. Doing that forces you to actually learn every layer instead of just the one you like.
If you put your mind to it, you can accomplish anything. Your future is whatever you make it.
- DevOps Push to a branch and let GitOps ship it.
- SecOps Least privilege everywhere, without locking myself out.
- SysOps Keep it up, and when it falls over, make the fix boring.
02experience --sorted
Where the hours went
Full bars are the things I'd be comfortable running in production at 3 a.m. The new markers are what I picked up this year.
UNIX / Linux 11Y+
Game Servers 10Y+
Network Security 7Y+
Cybersecurity 6Y+
Docker / Compose 5Y+
Certificate Management 5Y+
Enterprise Infrastructure 3Y+
ZFS 3Y+
Kubernetes (k3s · AKS) new <1Y
Observability (OTel) new <1Y
03stack --all
The toolbox
Everything I reach for across the homelab and my projects. The highlighted ones are new this year.
Backend & App
Orchestration
Edge, Mesh & Security
Identity & Auth
Data & Storage
Observability
CI/CD & Quality
04learning --active
On the bench right now
What I'm getting my hands dirty with right now. Some of it is barely past the docs stage.
- LDAP Directory-backed identity
- Kubernetes Operators CNPG · RabbitMQ · MinIO · KEDA
- Service Mesh Linkerd mTLS, traffic policy
- Progressive Delivery Canary + blue/green rollouts
05homelab --status
The rack that runs it all
Three machines, forty-odd containers. Everything reaches the internet through a self-hosted zero-trust tunnel, so the home IP never gets exposed.
NAS Server
ZFS storage · backups| OS | TrueNAS 24.04 Dragonfish |
|---|---|
| CPU | Intel Celeron N5095 |
| RAM | 16 GB DDR4 |
| Boot | 1 TB Samsung 970 EVO |
| Pool | 8 x 12 TB IronWolf · RAIDZ3 |
Workstation · nexus
Daily driver · the rice| OS | CachyOS (rolling) |
|---|---|
| CPU | AMD Ryzen 7 5700X |
| GPU | NVIDIA RTX 3090 |
| RAM | 32 GB DDR4 |
| WM | Hyprland (Wayland) |
| Shell | fish · kitty |
Services · self-hosted 24
= behind Pangolin single sign-on.
06desktop --history
Desktop features
The same workstation, restyled a few times a year. It's where this site's amber-on-black look came from in the first place. Click any shot to open it full size.
07./say-hi
Let's talk
Homelab war stories, a security question, or something you'd like built. I'm easy to reach.