When your homelab grows past a handful of services, a single git repository starts to feel like a junk drawer. Every service’s config, scripts, and docs are in the same commit history, every change touches multiple unrelated services, and cloning the whole thing just to work on one component is wasteful.
I went through this with my homelab. Here’s the pattern I landed on.
The Problem with Monorepos for Homelab
A monorepo made sense initially — one place for everything, simple history. But after adding a dozen services, the friction started:
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