System Architecture
A multi-site homelab spanning two geographic locations connected via Tailscale mesh VPN. 13 systems, 96 physical cores, 240+ GB RAM, 252TB+ storage, and 66 build cores across 5 drones.
Network Topology
Internet
Cloudflare Tunnel + DNS
Tailscale Mesh VPN
Milky Way
10.42.0.0/24 Altair-Link Izar-Host Arcturus-Host Tau-Host Capella-Outpost drone-Izar
Andromeda
192.168.20.0/24 Tarn-Host Meridian-Mako-Silo Cassiel-Silo drone-Tarn
Network Inventory
Milky Way
10.42.0.0/24 Primary Sector Hostname IP Address Type Specs/Role
Sentinel 10.42.0.1 Firewall OPNsense Router/Firewall
Capella-Outpost 10.42.0.100 Workstation 4c/32GB, RTX 4070 Ti
Sirius-Station 10.42.0.174 Workstation 8c/16GB
Altair-Link 10.42.0.199 Gateway 6c/32GB
Izar-Host 10.42.0.200 Hypervisor 16c/64GB
Arcturus-Host 10.42.0.201 Hypervisor 8c/32GB
Izar-Binhost 10.42.0.202 Binhost Binary Packages
drone-Izar 10.42.0.203 Build Drone 16c/14GB (LXC)
Tau-Host 10.42.0.194 Hypervisor 8c/32GB
drone-Tau 10.42.0.194 Build Drone 8c/31GB (Bare-metal)
sweeper-Capella 10.42.3.2 Sweeper 8c/31GB (LXC)
Rigel-Silo 10.42.0.10 NAS 24TB (Decommissioned)
Andromeda
192.168.20.0/24 Remote Sector Hostname IP Address Type Specs/Role
Kronos 192.168.20.1 Router ASUS GT-AXE16000
Tarn-Host 192.168.20.100 Hypervisor 16c/32GB
Meridian-Mako-Silo 192.168.20.50 NAS 24c/128GB, ~100TB
Cassiel-Silo 192.168.20.7 NAS 4c/8GB, 120TB
Mobius-Silo 192.168.20.170 NAS 2c/2GB, 22TB
drone-Tarn 100.64.0.91 Build Drone 14c/12GB (LXC)
drone-Meridian 192.168.20.77 Build Drone 20c/52GB (VM)
Polaris-Media 192.168.20.201 Media Server 4c/8GB
Tailscale Mesh
100.64.0.0/10 Overlay Network Hostname Tailscale IP Type Specs/Role
Altair-Link 100.64.0.88 Subnet Router Milky Way Gateway
Izar-Host 100.64.0.70 Node Primary Hypervisor
drone-Izar 100.64.0.126 Node Build Drone
drone-Tau 100.64.0.125 Node Build Drone
Capella-Outpost 100.64.0.26 Node Primary Workstation
Tarn-Host 100.64.0.42 Subnet Router Andromeda Hypervisor
drone-Tarn 100.64.0.91 Node Build Drone
drone-Meridian 100.64.0.110 Node Build Drone
Build Swarm
Distributed Gentoo package building across 66 cores
Orchestrator
Host: orchestrator-Izar
Endpoint: 10.42.0.201:8080
Gateway
Host: gateway-Altair
Endpoint: 10.42.0.199:8090
Drones (66 Total Cores)
drone-Izar 16 cores
Milky Way LXC
drone-Tau 8 cores
Milky Way Bare Metal
sweeper-Capella 8 cores
Milky Way LXC
drone-Tarn 14 cores
Andromeda LXC
drone-Meridian 20 cores
Andromeda VM
Storage Infrastructure
Multi-NAS storage pool across 3 active devices
Meridian-Mako-Silo
~100TB
Cassiel-Silo
120TB
Mobius-Silo
22TB
Hosted Services
Altair-Dashboard
Altair-Link:8080
gateway-Altair
Altair-Link:8090
orchestrator-Izar
Izar-Host:8080
Altair-Git
Altair-Link:3000
Altair-Metrics
Altair-Link:9090
Kaus-Media-Primary
Polaris-Media:32400
Kaus-Media-Secondary
Polaris-Media:32401
Proxmox UI
Tarn-Host:8006
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