Document updates and recovery
I keep update and recovery steps for the services I run.
BaluLabs · Personal environment
A personal lab for running, monitoring and recovering services.
Outside work, I use BaluLabs to practise deploying, monitoring, updating and recovering services. It is a personal environment, not enterprise production.
High-level environment
A stack I run and maintain myself.
Proxmox hosts Linux VMs and LXC containers. I run services with Docker and Portainer, use Traefik for access and TLS, and keep storage and backups on a Synology NAS.
I check monitoring, document changes, plan updates and keep recovery steps for the services I run.
Maintenance
Operating habits I practise in the lab.
Record configuration changes
Runbooks record what changed and what to check when a service fails.
Store backups on the NAS
A Synology NAS provides central storage and backups for the lab.
Check monitoring first
I review alerts and metrics before changing a service.
Before publishing anything from the lab, I remove hostnames, IP addresses, credentials, live topology and service-specific configuration.
BaluLabs on GitHub
Public notes from the lab.
The BaluLabs profile gives a high-level view of the environment and links to the public Proxmox tool.