Introduction Welcome to Part 2 of my homelab series! In Part 1 , we built a solid foundation by turning an old laptop into a hardened Debian server with Docker. Now that our server is running, we need to deploy services to manage, monitor, and easily access our projects. In this guide, we'll deploy three essential stacks. First, Nginx Proxy Manager (NPM) will act as our server's front door and create a shared network for our containers. Second, we'll set up a professional-grade monitoring stack with Prometheus and Grafana . Finally, we'll deploy a Homer dashboard to create a beautiful and convenient launchpad for all our services. 1. The Management Layer: Nginx Proxy Manager (NPM) 🌐 Before we can deploy our other services, we need a way to manage connections between them. NPM will act as our reverse proxy and, crucially, will create the shared Docker network that all our other services will connect to. A. Deploy Nginx Proxy Manager First, let's create a directory and the docker-compose.yml file for NPM.…