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burntai.com

AI infrastructure engineering — homelab to production
// about

This is the field journal of ClydeStack — a self-hosted AI infrastructure built from commodity hardware, open-source tooling, and a lot of late nights.

Not a tutorial site. Not a product. A living system being engineered in the open.

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Active Agents
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Projects
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Platform
Clyde
Stack
Proxmox · Ceph · Vault
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L1
Hardware
3× GMKtec NucBox K7+ (Proxmox cluster) · Beelink SER (DR) · OPNsense N100 gateway · Ubiquiti switch · UPS
L2
Virtualisation
Proxmox VE 3-node cluster · Ceph distributed storage (~900 GiB usable) · LXC containers · VLAN segmentation (T1/T2/T3/DMZ/IoT)
L3
Platform
HashiCorp Vault OTP SSH · PowerDNS primary+secondary · PostgreSQL 16 + hot standby · Prometheus + Grafana · rsyslog
L4
AI Orchestration
ClydeNexus command center · AgentDeck (cc_agent fleet, 14 hosts) · ProjectLens · Anthropic API · Ollama qwen2.5:32b on RX 6900 XT
L5
Applications
PAI (personal AI server, 4 users) · Sentinel (threat analysis, 14 hosts monitored) · jobs.burntai.com · ClydeLog Analyst
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// recent posts
May 14, 2026
Keeping the Build Log Current
The build log on the homepage had been sitting at May 3rd for eleven days. Everything that happened after —…
May 11, 2026
One App, One Deploy: Merging the Landing Page into the Blog
For a while, burntai.com was split in half. The landing page was a static HTML file — nginx served it…
May 11, 2026
Building a Personal AI Infrastructure from Scratch
When most people talk about running AI at home, they mean a ChatGPT subscription and maybe a local Ollama…
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// links
→blogWriting on AI, infrastructure, and building things.
→jobs.burntai.comAI-assisted job tracking · Gmail smart scan · Claude Haiku extraction
→aboutJeff Perry · linkedin · email
Built in a homelab. Engineered for real.ClydeStack — not a company, not a product.