My Local AI Stack: Mac Mini + Proxmox LXCs

Tue, 26 May 2026 10:00:00 +0000

I have been slowly assembling a local AI setup that I actually want to use day to day. The goal was simple: a Claude/ChatGPT-like experience that runs on my own hardware, with web search and document RAG, and without sending my prompts off to someone else’s servers. It ended up being a two-machine split — a Mac mini doing the inference, and a couple of Proxmox LXCs doing the frontend work — and I am surprisingly happy with how it landed.

Homelab IaC: Terraform + Ansible for Proxmox LXC

Mon, 20 Apr 2026 10:00:00 +0000

I have been tinkering with the best way to manage my homelab for a while now — specifically how to handle LXC containers on Proxmox in a way that doesn’t feel like organized chaos. This post is about how I got from “just run the community script” to a proper Terraform + Ansible setup that I can actually maintain.

The Community Scripts Phase

If you’ve spent any time in the Proxmox world, you’ve probably come across the Proxmox community scripts. They are genuinely great for getting something running quickly or just trying out a new service. Spin up a container, run a script, done. Fast. Easy. Zero thinking required.

LXC on René Welches

My Local AI Stack: Mac Mini + Proxmox LXCs

Homelab IaC: Terraform + Ansible for Proxmox LXC

The Community Scripts Phase