Richard Burgoyne

About

I’m Richard, a Melbourne-based homelab enthusiast and Lego nerd who writes about self-hosted infrastructure, DevOps practices, and the overlap between the two.

I run a lab split across a colocation allocation and my home, I care about doing things properly, and I write up what I build so I don’t forget how it works.

New here? Head to the blog for everything I’ve written, or browse by category.

The cornerstone write-ups - start here if you want the practical, production-grade stuff.

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What I Write About

Most tech posts - browse them all on the blog - fall into one of four areas:

  • Virtualisation and hypervisors - Proxmox VE, VM and LXC management, storage, and running infrastructure across multiple sites
  • Self-hosted DevOps and cloud engineering - secrets management, CI/CD pipelines, IaC, and applying production-grade practices outside of work
  • Linux fundamentals - LVM, disk management, and the filesystem layers that everything else sits on
  • Automation and platforms - GitHub Actions, Terraform, and the tooling that keeps configuration reproducible and out of your head

There’s also a Book Review filter on the blog for what I’ve been reading.

The Homelab

A lab split across a colocation allocation at Equinix ME1 and home in Melbourne, covering Proxmox, cross-site backups, centralised secrets, and SSO - all managed as code where it matters.

See the full Homelab breakdown →

The Lego Side

Away from the terminal, I collect and build Lego, mostly City and trains. I have a large collection of Lego trains and the long-term plan is to build a full Lego City layout with a railway as its centrepiece. It’s a slow project, which is fine.

Get in Touch

The best way to reach me is via email: hello@burgoyne.email

You can also find me on GitHub, where the dotfiles and boilerplates that back up a lot of what gets written here live.

If something on the site saved you time or helped you solve a problem, I’d genuinely like to hear about it.