I'm Jannik, a German system administrator with a passion for open source software and network engineering. I enjoy designing and maintaining complex network infrastructures, contributing to open source projects, and automating tasks in my HomeLab. In my free time, I enjoy riding my motorcycle, a KTM Duke 790, and driving cars.
Interested in my projects? Visit phanes.net.
How I moved ~70 repositories off GitHub and built a fully self-hosted software supply chain: Forgejo for git, Woodpecker for CI, Harbor as the registry, and Komodo for deployments - including the auto-deploy loop and the pitfalls that cost me the most time.
Six months after going all-in on UniFi, I ripped out the UDM Pro Max again. This is the story of building a truly highly available home network: an OPNsense CARP pair on repurposed Sophos appliances, a MikroTik MLAG core, and all the lessons that came with leaving the walled garden.
Building a transparent Steam download cache with lancache monolithic, DNS overrides in Unbound on an OPNsense HA pair, NFS storage from TrueNAS, and automatic prefill of every game I own - including new purchases.
Why I stopped renting my music library and built my own streaming stack instead - Plex and Plexamp as the player, a Soulseek-first acquisition pipeline with slskd, Lidarr-style automation, and everything running in Docker on my homelab.
