Mini PC Home Lab

Self-HostingBeginnerCost~$60–150Time2–4 hoursResearched

Cost and time are estimates, not measured results.Leads to 6 follow-on builds

Build manual

Report issue

Page 1 of 14: Mini-PC Home Lab Starter

BLUEPRINT MANUAL

Mini-PC Home Lab Starter

Turn a used ThinkCentre Tiny into a wired Ubuntu Server you can administer over SSH and use as a stable Docker/Compose host for future Schemdeck self-hosted projects.

A management computer and a Lenovo ThinkCentre M710q homelab share the home LAN; the mini-PC runs Ubuntu Server, OpenSSH, Docker Engine, and one Compose-managed Nginx test service published on TCP 8080.
The starter host stays on the home LAN: SSH administers Ubuntu and Docker publishes the verification service on TCP 8080.
1 / 14