I Rebuilt My Home Lab Rack… Here’s the Plan Before It Gets Worse 😅

My home lab rack was a mess… so I’m rebuilding it from scratch 😅 This is the planning phase of turning it into a clean, scalable mini data center. In this video, I go through: Why I moved away from monolithic apps 🧱 Switching to containers + CI/CD workflows 🚀 Planning a full home lab rack layout (24U) The plan to use tools like Proxmox, Terraform, and NetBox Physical design for automation, monitoring, and scalability The goal? 👉 A “set it and forget it” home lab where I can deploy, rebuild, and recover systems without chaos. This is the start of a full series where I’ll: Rebuild the rack hardware Clean up networking & cabling Set up monitoring (Prometheus + Grafana) Implement infrastructure as code Add backups & disaster recovery Basically… turning my lab into something that actually makes sense. Chapters: 00:00 What am I doing with my life? 03:21 Looking to the future 05:26 Project outline 07:24 Rack outline and design 🎵 Music courtesy of freetouse.com 👍 Like if you enjoy home lab content 📺 Subscribe to follow the full rebuild series 💬 What would YOU do differently? Let me know below