Verifies 16 DockerHub images, assigns target nodes per locked policy, defines 3-phase deployment order (Infra → Media → Polish), and captures open questions for Bobby. Services: Traefik, Technitium DNS, AdGuard Home, Prometheus, Grafana, Beszel, Dozzle, Portainer, Homepage, Authelia, Vaultwarden, Jellyfin, Sonarr, Radarr, Prowlarr, Nextcloud Domain: *.ai.home No public internet exposure.
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Iron Legion Homelab Services Stack — Deployment Phases
Phase 1: Infrastructure (Critical Path)
Goal: Get DNS, proxy, and basic monitoring alive. Everything else depends on this.
| Order | Service | Target Node | Why First | Dependencies |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Technitium DNS | Bones | Name resolution for internal services | None |
| 2 | Pi-hole | Bones | Recursive DNS + ad-block | Technitium (via conditional forwarding) |
| 3 | Traefik | Mark5 | Edge router for all HTTP ingress | DNS (needs *.labs.internal to resolve) |
| 4 | Authelia | Mark5 | Auth layer before exposing any mgmt UI | Traefik (depends on ForwardAuth middleware) |
| 5 | Portainer | Neo | Container management UI | Traefik + Authelia (for secured access) |
| 6 | Prometheus | Mark44 | Metrics collection baseline | None (scrape targets added in Phase 2) |
| 7 | Beszel | Mark44 | Fleet resource overview | None (agents installed per-node) |
| 8 | Dozzle | Mark44 | Real-time log viewing | None |
Phase 1 milestone: All nodes report healthy in Beszel. Portainer accessible via auth portal. DNS resolves.
Phase 2: Media & File Collaboration
Goal: Self-hosted media acquisition and file sync.
| Order | Service | Target Node | Why Now | Dependencies |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 9 | Jellyfin | Mark44 | Media playback (GPU transcode if Mark44 has dGPU) | None (file ingest later) |
| 10 | Sonarr | Mark44 | TV management | Jellyfin (pushes organized files) |
| 11 | Radarr | Mark44 | Movie management | Jellyfin (pushes organized files) |
| 12 | Prowlarr | Mark44 | Indexer aggregation | Sonarr + Radarr (feeds them) |
| 13 | Nextcloud | Neo | File sync/collaboration | PostgreSQL (on Bones) |
| 14 | Vaultwarden | Neo | Password management | None (standalone) |
Phase 2 milestone: Media acquisition pipeline works end-to-end. Nextcloud syncs. Vaultwarden stores secrets.
Phase 3: Polish & Expansion
Goal: Dashboards, advanced monitoring, nice-to-haves.
| Order | Service | Target Node | Why Deferred | Dependencies |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 15 | Grafana | Mark44 | Dashboards need metrics to be interesting | Prometheus (needs data history) |
| 16 | Homepage | Mark5 | Custom dashboard for everything | All Phase 1+2 services (needs endpoints) |
| – | Promtail + Loki | TBD | Centralized logging | Only if Dozzle is insufficient |
| – | Uptime-Kuma | TBD | External uptime monitoring | Only if Beszel alerting is insufficient |
Phase 3 milestone: Single-pane dashboard (Homepage) shows all services. Alerts route to Discord or email.
Deployment Cadence
- One service per session. No mass deployments. Validate each before proceeding.
- Rollback plan:
docker compose down+mv /opt/iron-legion/service{,-failed-$(date +%s)}. Snapshot taken before each compose up. - Bobby approval required before Phase 2 begins. Phase 1 success must be demonstrated.