Pi 5 Projects

Gitea: Own Your Code, Track Your Infrastructure You have spent the last nine guides building something real. Docker containers, monitoring, automation workflows, reverse proxies, maybe even a Kubernetes cluster. Your Pi is running production services. Configuration files are scattered across directories. Compose files tuned through trial and error. Environment variables that took three attempts to

n8n: Connect Everything With Visual Workflow Automation You have got a collection of services running on your Pi. Docker containers doing their thing. Uptime Kuma watching them. Ollama summarising text. Pi-hole filtering DNS. Each one works. None of them talk to each other. That is the difference between having containers and having infrastructure. Infrastructure is

Uptime Kuma: Know When Things Break Before Anyone Tells You Here’s a question that changed how I think about my homelab: if Pi-hole goes down at 2am, how would you know? Not how would you fix it — how would you even know it happened? You’d wake up, your family would complain that the internet

Ollama on Raspberry Pi 5: Run Local AI Models on Your Own Hardware Let me set expectations immediately: a Raspberry Pi 5 is not going to replace ChatGPT. It’s not going to run Llama 3 70B. It’s not going to generate images or do real-time voice transcription at any useful speed. What it will do

I’m going to let you in on a secret: the career reason to run Home Assistant has almost nothing to do with home automation. Home Assistant is an event-driven platform with a REST API, a WebSocket API, hundreds of integrations, a state management engine, and YAML-based configuration that follows the exact same patterns as Ansible,

Nginx Proxy Manager on Raspberry Pi 5: Proper URLs and SSL for Your Homelab You’ve got Docker running. Portainer’s giving you visibility. Pi-hole’s cleaning up your network. And you’re accessing everything by typing IP addresses and port numbers into a browser like it’s 2003. http://192.168.1.100:8080 for Pi-hole. https://192.168.1.100:9443 for Portainer. Whatever port your next service

Pi-hole on Raspberry Pi 5: Network-Wide Ad Blocking and DNS You Control Of all the projects in this series, Pi-hole delivers the fastest return on investment. Not in some abstract career-value sense — in the “my partner just thanked me for making the internet less annoying” sense. Within ten minutes of pointing your router at

There is a moment in every homelab journey where you realise you have lost track of what is running. You SSH in, type docker ps, and stare at a wall of truncated container names, port mappings, and status fields that tell you technically everything and practically nothing. Which container is eating all the RAM? What

Every other project in this series runs on Docker. The reverse proxy, the monitoring, the DNS, the automation platform, the AI models — all of it. Docker is not one of the ten projects. It is project zero. The foundation that everything else sits on. I have Docker running on seven machines right now. Two