Decisions

Architecture decision records from my homelab, lightly edited for publishing: what I chose, what I passed on, and why. Gaps in the numbering are records I've kept private.

2026

Self-Hosted Autoheal Watcher for Unhealthy ContainersADR 0085
Event-Driven Drift NotificationADR 0084
Declarative *arr Application Config via the REST APIADR 0083
Automated Documentation MaintenanceADR 0082
Migrate Vercel Applications to Self-Hosted DockerADR 0081
Cloudflare Account Full Infrastructure-as-CodeADR 0080
Quarterly Immich Restore TestADR 0079
Stateless Plex Tiering MoverADR 0078
Plex Tiered Storage with mergerfsADR 0077
Renovate Supply-Chain CooldownsADR 0076
Cached Secrets Lookup Plugin for AnsibleADR 0075
Adopt VersityGW as Homelab S3 GatewayADR 0074
Quarterly VPS Snapshot Restore TestADR 0070
Split Caddy Architecture with Explicit DNS RecordsADR 0067
Migrate the Hetzner VPS from CPX32 to CX33 for Cost OptimizationADR 0066
Migrate the Hetzner VPS from Ashburn to NurembergADR 0065

2025

Simplify Automation Jobs by Removing the Templating AbstractionADR 0059
Empirical Workflow Timeout StandardizationADR 0056
Automation Jobs Templating and Intelligent SchedulingADR 0039
Establish Service Lifecycle Management Through First Service RemovalADR 0036
Successful Terraform to OpenTofu MigrationADR 0034
Cloudflare Access Manual ManagementADR 0028
Switch from OpenTofu to Terraform for DNS InfrastructureADR 0024
Adopt OpenTofu for External Infrastructure (Cloudflare, Hetzner, Tailscale)ADR 0022
Image Policy: Digest Pinning with Renovate Merge WindowsADR 0008
Adopt Docker Compose for Container OrchestrationADR 0007