Core Infrastructure

The backbone of the homelab runs on Proxmox VE with QEMU/KVM as the virtualization backend, providing robust virtualization for all workloads. Ubuntu cloud images serve as the base for most VMs, ensuring consistent and reproducible deployments.

ZFS provides enterprise-grade storage with built-in data integrity, snapshots, and compression. Proxmox Backup Server handles automated snapshots and backups. TrueNAS serves as dedicated NAS storage, with NFS and Samba providing network shares for various clients. Docker containers and LXC handle application isolation for various services.