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.
The Stack
L1
Hardware
3x GMKtec NucBox K7+ (Proxmox cluster), Beelink SER3 (DR), OPNsense N100 gateway, Ubiquiti core switch, UPS
L2
Virtualisation
Proxmox VE 3-node cluster, Ceph distributed storage (~900 GiB usable), LXC containers, VLAN segmentation (T1/T2/T3/DMZ)
L3
Platform
HashiCorp Vault (OTP SSH fleet-wide), PowerDNS primary+secondary, PostgreSQL 16, Prometheus + Grafana, rsyslog to ClydeLog
L4
AI Orchestration
ClydeNexus command center, AgentDeck (cc_agent fleet, 15+ hosts), ProjectLens, HybridGuard (3-tier LLM routing), Anthropic API
L5
Applications
PAI (personal AI server), Sentinel (threat analysis), JobCommand, HomeBase, ClydeLog Analyst
Current Status
Fleet online — 15+ hosts, 24 Prometheus targets
Ceph HEALTH_OK — 3 nodes, ~900 GiB usable
AI agents running — Anthropic API + local Ollama