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- Introduced the "Homelab MCP Server — Frank v6 Integration Addendum" document detailing the enhancements brought by Frank v6, including personality layers, specialty domains, and reasoning techniques. - Updated the base MCP server specification to include comprehensive design decisions, tool catalog, architecture, and security model. - Added new tools and enriched behaviors for DevOps, Data Analysis, and Prompt Engineering specialties. - Established a structured command registry for easy access to functionalities across specialties. - Documented configuration additions for Frank's personality, specialties, reasoning techniques, and knowledge base integration.
Castaldi Family Homelab
A GitOps-managed, Ansible-automated infrastructure running media services, container orchestration, and hypervisor management across distributed ARM and x86 nodes.
🚀 Why This Homelab?
- Zero-Touch Deployments: Push to Git → Auto-deploy via webhooks → Containers update automatically
- Ansible Automation: All nodes managed by Ansible from watchtower control plane
- Infrastructure as Code: Services defined in
compose.yaml+ infrastructure managed with Ansible playbooks - GPU Transcoding: Hardware-accelerated media streaming with NVIDIA GTX 1060 Mobile
- Distributed Architecture: Services across physical servers with Proxmox hypervisor ready for VM deployment
- Self-Hosted Git: No external dependencies—Gitea runs on-premise with automated backups
- Production-Grade Networking: Traefik reverse proxy with automatic SSL (Cloudflare DNS challenge)
- Hypervisor Management: Proxmox VE ready for VM orchestration with automated post-install configuration
📊 Stats
- Total Nodes: 5 (1 hypervisor + 3 compute + 1 storage)
- Automation: Ansible managing 4 active nodes from Watchtower
- Container Orchestration: Komodo v2.1.2
- Active Services: 12+ (Traefik, Plex, Tunarr, Gitea, Trek, Vaultwarden, etc.)
- Total RAM: 62GB (15GB PVE01 + 15GB Heimdall + 16GB Waldorf + 16GB Watchtower)
- Total CPU Cores: 30 physical (14c i5-13500T + 8c i7-7820HQ + 4c N100 + 4c ARM)
- Virtualization: Proxmox VE 9.1.7 available (no VMs currently deployed)
- GPU Acceleration: NVIDIA GTX 1060 Mobile (6GB VRAM)
- Storage: TerraMaster NAS (NFSv3/v4)
🤝 Contributing
This is a personal homelab, but documentation improvements and issue reports are welcome!
- Fork via Gitea:
https://git.castaldifamily.com/nathan/homelab - Create feature branch:
git checkout -b feat/my-improvement - Commit using Conventional Commits
- Push and create Pull Request
📜 License
Personal infrastructure configuration. Documentation licensed under CC BY-SA 4.0.
Maintained by: Nathan Castaldi
Last Updated: April 21, 2026
Status: 🟢
Automation Status: 🟢