Year: 2025
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home lab
10 Home Lab Mistakes I Made (So You Don’t Have To)
They say that you learn more from mistakes than when things go successfully. I can definitely attest to that fact. I have had some horrible crash and burns in the home lab. But, when the smoke clears and dust settles…
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home lab
Best Traefik Plugins for Home Lab and Production (My Top Picks)
Traefik is one of my favorite reverse proxies and it stands out for a number of reasons, including how easy it is to use it with infrastructure as code and have your certs as part of your general docker configuration.…
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home lab
I Added Authentik SSO to My Home Lab with Docker-Compose: Logging In Will Never Be the Same
I have been experimenting with SSO lately in the home lab and decided to give Authentik a try. And let me tell you, it is a crazy good self-hosted SSO solution that will likely do anything you need it to…
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Storage
TerraMaster D1 SSD Plus Review: Blazing Fast Storage for Creators and Home Labs
The portable SSD market has exploded in recent years. When Terramaster sent over the D1 SSD Plus for me to take a look at, it was an intriguing little device to say the least and one that piqued my interest.…
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home lab
I Replaced Nginx Proxy Manager with Traefik in My Home Lab and It Changed Everything
I have been using Nginx Proxy Manager (NPM) for quite some time now, a few years from what I remember. It is a great solution and one that I point many to who are just starting out with their Docker…
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Containers
Visualize Your Docker-Compose with Mermaid + docker-compose-viz This Weekend
I have been big into documenting my home lab and finding tools that are great for creating documentation for my DevOps processes in the lab and in production. This has led me down a rabbit hole of trying all sorts…
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Kubernetes
How to Install Talos Omni On-Prem for Effortless Kubernetes Management
Kubernetes is one of the most complex architectures and solutions in modern infrastructure. When it comes to K8s, we need to manage control planes, worker nodes, certificates, upgrades, and lifecycle management. This is where Talos Linux and Omni come in.…
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home lab
Top Home lab Networking Mistakes to Avoid in 2025
Networking is literally the lifeblood of your home lab. If the network is no good, then everything else is going to fall down. Things won’t perform well, and you will spend most of your time troubleshooting the network and other…
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home lab
Vault vs Doppler vs Sealed Secrets: Automating Home Lab Secrets in 2025
One of the most important areas to take a look at when you start playing around with automating things in your home lab, is the problem of using secrets and storing them. Let’s look at three unique solutions, including Hashicorp…
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Containers
Portainer 2.33 LTS Released with Alerting, New Look, Helm Overhaul and More!
Portainer has long been on the lists of best Docker tools that you can use in the home lab and in production environments. REcently, they have announced the new Portainer 2.33 LTS version has been released. It is folding in…
