René Welches

TECH NOTES TO MYSELF

My Local AI Stack: Mac Mini + Proxmox LXCs

Ollama on the Mac mini, Open WebUI on Proxmox, and SearXNG keeping the web search private

How I run a fully self-hosted AI stack split across a Mac mini M4 Pro for inference and a Proxmox cluster for the frontend — Ollama, Docling, Caddy, Open WebUI and SearXNG, all behind TLS.

Posted by Rene Welches on Tuesday, May 26, 2026

Homelab IaC: Terraform + Ansible for Proxmox LXC

Because clicking through the Proxmox UI twice is already too many times

How I went from Proxmox community scripts to a full Terraform + Ansible IaC setup for managing LXC containers, with MinIO as a self-hosted Terraform state backend.

Posted by Rene Welches on Monday, April 20, 2026