I Don't Maintain My Homelab

Table of Contents 1. Infrastructure 1.1. Server 1.2. Network 2. Software 3. The Outcome It's true. I don't maintain my homelab… it maintains itself. Have I reached nirvana? Is this the ultimate goal of homelabbers? It seems that I've somehow automated myself out of a job (hobby?) by building a resilient homelab. Let's figure out where it all went "wrong". 1. Infrastructure 1.1. Server I have used a few different servers over the years, but have since consolidated all of my services onto a single server (build guide here), reducing the complexity of my environment. Because of the single-server setup, maintenance is down 75% (from four servers to one). Yes, clusters and hypervisors and hybrid cloud solutions are shiny and fancy and popular, but I just don't care for it. Instead, I have a single metal box I can pick up with my hands sitting in my basement. I do have one more "server": a Raspberry Pi 4, but it uses Home Assistant OS, updates itself, and requires literally zero…