Systems Lab Infrastructure Build

This document outlines the architectural implementation of the core enterprise-grade virtualization cluster, dedicated isolated virtual networks, and automated container deployment frameworks.

Core Infrastructure & Hypervisor Configuration

• Hypervisor OS: Proxmox VE (Virtual Environment Cluster)

• Compute Provisioning: Isolated Linux Containers (LXC) & Hardware-Isolated Virtual Machines

• Network Strategy: Granular 802.1Q VLAN Tagging, dedicated firewall rulesets, and isolated routing profiles to segment sandbox testing environments from core infrastructure.

Containerized Service Inventory

The underlying application services are fully containerized and orchestrate continuous ingress handling, repository management, and core presentation layers.

Container Name                  Base Image / Tech             Internal Port               Routing Profile                         

nginx-proxy-manager      Nginx / NPM Admin               80, 443, 81                   80 / 443 Public Ingress               

The Gateway: Handles SSL termination via Cloudflare and maps incoming domain traffic to the correct container destination.

forgejo-git                        Forgejo / Go                       3000 (HTTP) / 22 (SSH)   git.yourdomain.com              

The Forge: Private, self-hosted Git server hosting all local repository code, system layouts, and deployment manifests.

astro-portfolio                  Node.js / Astro                    4321                               yourdomain.com                      

The Showcase: Powering the primary portfolio frontend, the custom “Stealth” UI workspace, the STE Rater, and the Markdown Converter.

Deployment & Scalability Note

While the custom utilities (STE Rater and Text-to-Markdown Converter) currently run natively inside the monolithic application container, the underlying architecture is engineered to scale out seamlessly into microservices as compute demand dictates.