My First homeLab setup

I have a laptop hanging around and thought about converting it into a home lab.

Here are the specs: Lenovo IdeaPad

i3 10th gen 2c/4p 8GB DDR4 RAM 512GB M.2 NVME Gen4 SSD,

1TB HDD

OS: Ubuntu Server 24.04 LTS

The laptop is running headless, with the lid closed, and is being used as a small always-on home server.

Networking & Remote Access

AdGuard Home – local DNS server and network-wide ad/ tracker blocking

Tailscale – secure remote access to the homelab without exposing services directly to the Internet

Caddy – reverse proxy for accessing services through local hostnames

I'm also using local DNS and reverse-proxying to make the internal services easier to access instead of remembering different ports for everything

Running dockers containers :-

Tailscale – remote network access

AdGuard Home – DNS/ad blocking

Caddy – reverse proxy

Uptime Kuma – uptime monitoring

Grafana – dashboards

Loki – log aggregation

ntfy – push notifications

Plex – media server

Immich – photo management