03 · Private network · Personal lab · 2025
Reliability lab
The platform under the other two applications.
Virtualization, two small Kubernetes distributions, backups, failure drills and a monitoring stack. There is no public URL, and there should not be one.
No public URL. The lab network stays private.
What you can do in it
Pick a part of the application. The note says what it is for, what you should see, and one thing worth trying.
What it does
Proxmox
Hosts the virtual machines the rest of the lab runs on.
- On the screen
- A hypervisor I operate myself, rather than a rented database with the machine hidden.
- Try this
- There is nothing to click here. The public evidence is the two applications that sit on this platform.
What this lab is
A database is only as recoverable as the last restore someone actually performed. This lab is where I rehearse that, on hardware and virtual machines I operate myself, without waiting for the next production incident.
Apache Geode, which Multi-DB Studio uses as the in-memory grid, is in the middle of a host move from AG2 to AG. AG was repaired recently. Until that move is finished, Geode is a migration, not a settled platform.
What I practice
Backup schedules, restore drills, failure simulation, and reading a dashboard during the drill. Bash and Ansible are for the procedures I want to repeat. The runbook matters more than a clever one-off command.
What this does not prove
There is no public URL for the lab network. Grafana screenshots and a sanitized repository would make this note easier to trust. Until those exist, the evidence is the two applications above and the production work on my Upwork profile.