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Mastering Self-Hosting for Homelabs Build, Automate, and Monitor Your Homelab with Docker, Ansible, and Production-Grade Tools Take full ownership of your digital infrastructure and stop depending on third-party cloud services. Mastering Self-Hosting for Homelabs is a complete, practical guide to designing, building, securing, and scaling a modern self-hosted environment using the same tools and workflows trusted by professional system administrators and DevOps engineers. Whether you're starting with a single Raspberry Pi or running multiple servers at home, this book walks you through every step with clarity and real-world focus. What You'll Learn Inside this book, you'll gain hands-on experience with real infrastructure-not toy examples. You'll learn how to: - Understand homelabs and self-hosting from a professional, production-ready perspective - Choose the right hardware: servers, NAS systems, mini PCs, and Raspberry Pi - Design reliable networking with static IPs, DNS, port forwarding, and firewalls - Master Docker fundamentals and container best practices - Deploy and manage multi-service stacks using Docker Compose - Visually manage containers and resources with Portainer - Automate deployments and configuration using Ansible - Secure services with reverse proxies, Traefik, and SSL/TLS certificates - Monitor uptime, performance, and system health with Prometheus and Grafana - Host real-world services like Jellyfin, Plex, Nextcloud, Pi-hole, VPNs, and Home Assistant Each concept is reinforced with practical projects and real configurations you can reuse in your own homelab. Why This Book Stands Out Most self-hosting guides stop at basic setup steps. This book goes further by teaching why systems are designed a certain way and how to avoid fragile, hard-to-maintain setups. You'll learn: - How to structure your homelab cleanly from day one - How to avoid common mistakes that lead to broken services and data loss - How to apply professional automation and monitoring techniques at home - How to scale your homelab without constant reconfiguration The result is a homelab that behaves like a small production environment-reliable, observable, and easy to manage. Project-Driven, Real-World Learning This book is built around hands-on projects, including: - Building your first homelab node - Deploying containerized services safely - Automating infrastructure with Ansible - Exposing services securely to the internet - Creating a full monitoring and observability stack - Integrating media servers, private cloud storage, and home automation By the end of the book, you won't just understand self-hosting-you'll have a fully functional, professional-grade homelab running on your own hardware. Who This Book Is For - Beginners who want a clear, structured path into self-hosting - Homelab enthusiasts ready to level up their setups - IT students and engineers building real-world skills - SysAdmins and DevOps professionals practicing modern tooling - Privacy-focused users who want full control of their data No enterprise background is required-just curiosity and the desire to build systems properly. Take Control of Your Infrastructure If you're ready to move beyond fragile tutorials and build a homelab that mirrors real-world infrastructure, Mastering Self-Hosting for Homelabs is your complete guide. Build smarter. Automate everything. Own your data.

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