Project
Homelab Control Plane
The managed core of my homelab, segmented so lab experiments cannot take management down with them.
A homelab needs a place where the steady parts live. This project is that place: the control plane where management interfaces, configuration access, and the services the lab depends on are kept separate from everything I am actively experimenting on.
The design problem is blast radius. When an EVE-NG lab goes sideways (and it does), the management layer should not go with it. So the control plane is segmented from lab traffic, access to it is deliberate rather than incidental, and the topology, build decisions, and evidence are documented with the same gated workflow as my other builds.
What this project changed most was my posture. I stopped treating the homelab as a pile of VMs and started treating it as a small production estate: something with a management plane worth protecting, change discipline worth following, and documentation worth writing before the incident, not after it.