OWLA.DEV

development lab

A small self-hosted lab: four machines at home, one VPS at the edge, and a private mesh network tying them together. Everything below runs on hardware I own or rent directly, with no managed cloud service in the path.

The fleet

• VPS, edge6 vCPU, 11 GB RAM, 99 GB disk, 38 containers
• mag0GPU node for model serving and media
• mag1 · mag2 · mag34 cores and 7 GB RAM each, mini PCs and repurposed laptops
• Meshevery host on one private network, no service exposed to the open internet unless it is meant to be

Edge, on a VPS

• Traefikreverse proxy, per-host certificates issued automatically
• Headscale + Headplaneself-hosted Tailscale control plane for the private mesh
• wg-easy, frpWireGuard peers and reverse tunnels back to the home lab
• Mailcowfull mail stack: Postfix, Dovecot, Rspamd, SOGo, ClamAV
• AzuraCastradio streaming and scheduling
• Prometheus, Grafanametrics and dashboards, with node-exporter and cAdvisor
• Portainercontainer management across the fleet

Home lab

• Immichphoto and video library, with its own machine-learning workers
• n8nworkflow automation and scheduled jobs
• Pi-holeDNS for the mesh, with filtering
• Restream pipelineFFmpeg-based live restreaming to YouTube
• Local modelslanguage models served on owned GPUs, no external API
• Ansibleprovisioning and configuration for every host above

Public demos

• geoforgeGPS points on real OpenStreetMap infrastructure
• quotesquotes API with keys, quotas and Google sign-in
• prayerprayer times and the Hijri calendar

Status

• status.owla.devlive uptime for everything listed above