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Homelab Network Design Inspired by Data Center Principles
A developer redesigned their homelab network after adding an Akash provider that hosts tenant workloads. The flat /24 subnet was replaced with VLAN segmentation and firewall policies to isolate workloads. The new design uses OPNsense, Cisco Nexus, and Proxmox to control east-west traffic and limit blast radius.
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This is a practical case study in network segmentation for homelabs, but the design patterns are directly applicable to small-scale production environments.
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