Services

The services section is for the tools that make my homelab useful day to day but do not need a whole architecture page yet. Komodo is the backbone for managing those services, while the rest are a mix of personal utilities, development tools, and supporting infrastructure.

This page should stay practical: what the service is for, where it runs, what data it owns, and what has to be backed up before it can be considered disposable.

Current Direction

• Komodo for server and container management.
• Forgejo for self-hosted Git and internal project history.
• Syncthing for direct file synchronization.
• RustDesk Server for self-hosted remote desktop support.
• Supporting utilities that are useful, but not important enough to become their own top-level section.

Setup

New services should earn their place. Before something becomes part of the stable lab, it needs a home, a name, a backup answer, and a reason to exist beyond “it looked interesting.”

• Decide whether it belongs in Proxmox, TrueNAS apps, or somewhere else.
• Name it consistently in DNS and routing.
• Put persistent data somewhere intentional.
• Keep secrets out of repos and notes.
• Add the smallest useful health check before relying on it.