Self-Hosted Docker Services on Raspberry Pi

Containerized services for web hosting, monitoring, administration, and internal lab workflows.

DockerNGINXGrafanaPortainerPi-holeRaspberry Pi

Project Goal

Use Docker to make self-hosted services easier to deploy, update, isolate, and maintain.

This project focused on running useful homelab services in containers on Raspberry Pi hardware. Public documentation stays intentionally high level and avoids exposing private host mappings, credentials, or internal-only service details, while still showing practical experience with self-hosting and container operations.

Example Service Categories

Representative container roles used in the environment.

  • Web hosting and reverse proxy services
  • Monitoring and observability tools
  • Administrative dashboards and service management tools
  • Internal utility services for lab workflows and testing

High-Level Steps

Public-safe workflow for deploying and maintaining the stack.

  1. Selected services that would benefit from containerized deployment and isolation.
  2. Deployed the containers on a Raspberry Pi host using repeatable Docker-based workflows.
  3. Configured persistent storage and bind mounts where services needed durable data or editable content.
  4. Integrated selected services with reverse proxy, monitoring, or management workflows.
  5. Monitored Docker containers through Grafana dashboards using Prometheus and cAdvisor.
  6. Validated that services stayed reachable and healthy after updates or configuration changes.
  7. Documented the stack at a high level to support future maintenance and expansion.

Skills Demonstrated

Concepts shown through the Docker setup.

  • Container deployment and service isolation
  • Self-hosting workflows on resource-constrained hardware
  • Reverse proxy and observability integration
  • Container monitoring through Grafana dashboards
  • Operational maintenance, updates, and validation

Future Improvements

Possible next steps.

  • Add sanitized architecture diagrams showing service relationships
  • Document backup and recovery workflows in more detail
  • Expand service health alerting across more containers