Pocket Lab

A small, reproducible NAS platform for safely hosting personal services at home.

SuccessfulDockerCloudflare TunnelNginx

1public ingress

15mrecovery target

2025year explored

The question

How much production discipline can fit into a low-power home environment without becoming a second job?

I standardized container boundaries, encrypted ingress, backups, resource limits, and a short recovery runbook.

The mock platform can be rebuilt from documentation and keeps administrative surfaces off the public internet.

The best homelab is one whose failure mode leaves a clear path home.