My homelab stack in 2026: what runs, why, and how it all connects (opens in new tab)

I'm not going to make the case for self-hosting here. If you're reading this, you already get it. What I want to do instead is be honest about what I actually run, why I made the specific choices I made, and - more interestingly - how the pieces talk to each other in ways that weren't always planned from the start. The stack runs across four machines. The bulk of Docker workloads are split between a Mac Mini and an Ubuntu mini PC. Network infrastructure - Traefik and CoreDNS - runs on a Raspb...