whoami
Hey, I’m Suraj — a DevOps engineer based in Gurgaon, India. When I’m not writing pipelines or debugging deployments, I’m tinkering with self-hosted infrastructure spread across a Raspberry Pi, an old laptop, and a Lenovo ThinkCentre — all tucked away in my apartment.
This homelab
What started as a simple NAS on a Raspberry Pi turned into a 3-node, 12-service stack — ad blocking, surveillance, media streaming, bookmark archiving, power monitoring, and more. This site documents the hardware, running services, and the occasional writeup when something interesting breaks or gets built.
The stack at a glance
$ neofetch --homelab
Nodes Raspberry Pi 4B (2GB) · Old Laptop (8GB)· Lenovo ThinkCentre (64GB)
OS Raspberry Pi OS 64-bit / Ubuntu / Proxmox VE
Storage WD Red SATA SSD (500GB SSD for caching) + WD Blue HDD (4TB)
Network Tailscale mesh VPN + nginx reverse proxy
DNS Pi-hole (×2 redundant)
Runtime Docker + Docker Compose
Services 12 — Frigate · Joplin · Samba · Tailscale · Pi-hole
Grafana · Jellyfin · Linkwarden · Omnitools
Electricity Monitor · FUP Monitor · Wishlist Manager
Find me elsewhere
- 🌐 Main site — surajdhakre.xyz
- 💻 GitHub — github.com/slatesuraj
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