nixfiles/docs/remote/kelder

kelder

Secondary home server at a remote site, domain hentai.engineer. Linked back to colony over WireGuard and acting as a NixOS container host (like shill/sfh).

• Source: nixos/boxes/kelder/
• Host: physical (Intel; LTS kernel, kvm-intel, IOMMU on)
• nixpkgs: mine

Role

• Container host — runs two NixOS containers on the ctrs bridge (my.containers.instances): kelder-acquisition and kelder-spoder (below).
• Public services via colony — a WireGuard tunnel (estuary netdev) connects to colony's estuary box, which DNATs public traffic to kelder's tunneled assignment; connection-mark-based policy routing sends replies back through the tunnel while ordinary traffic uses the LAN. kelder's own NAT forwards http/https on to kelder-spoder.
• Nextcloud host — served from the kelder-spoder container.
• Samba — the storage share backed by /mnt/storage, with nmbd and samba-wsdd for Windows discovery.
• DDNS — a ddns-update timer runs dns_update.py periodically to sync the hentai.engineer and kelder-local.hentai.engineer Cloudflare records with the address on et1g0.

Network assignments

See the consolidated network assignments table (this box: kelder).

Containers

Container	Role
kelder-acquisition	Media stack (Transmission over AirVPN, Jackett/Radarr/Sonarr, Jellyfin)
kelder-spoder	Nextcloud + nginx reverse proxy

The containers are not deploy targets (my.deploy.enable = false); they're managed through the host.

Networking

• LAN on et1g0 (renamed by MAC) with DHCP and MTU 1460 (lib.my.c.kelder.ipv4MTU); the kelder v4 prefixes are masqueraded out of it.
• The estuary WireGuard peer is combined with rules that keep LAN traffic on the main table and only route tunnel-marked or owned traffic through the tunnel's dedicated table.

Services

• netdata (proxied as monitor.hentai.engineer by kelder-spoder), smartd, fstrim, LVM thin provisioning.
• minecraft-server is present but disabled (enable = false); the firewall still opens 25565 tcp/udp.
• Primary user kontent (in the storage/media groups).
• Sets system.nixos.distroName = "KelderOS", a custom Plymouth theme and an amogus-beep boot jingle (boot.nix).

Notable config files

• nixos/boxes/kelder/default.nix — system, assignments, tunnel, NAT, containers.
• nixos/boxes/kelder/boot.nix — Plymouth theme + boot beep.
• nixos/boxes/kelder/containers/ — the two container definitions.
• nixos/boxes/kelder/dns_update.py — Cloudflare DDNS script.