Month: July 2025
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home lab
Stop Exposing Your Home Lab – Do This Instead
Like most, when I first spun up my home lab, one of the first things I wanted to do like anyone is to be able to hit my home lab services from the Internet. And, I did this for a…
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home lab
Automate Your Home Lab in Hours Not Days with Kestra!
I feel like anymore there is an absolute smorgasbord of great automation tools that we have access to, especially now in the age of AI. So many great solutions. Recently, I covered n8n which is a tremendously powerful workflow automation…
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Proxmox
Proxmox Backup Server 4.0 Beta Released – Try the New Features Today!
If you have been following along with my post from yesterday, Proxmox has released Proxmox VE Server 9 Beta just a few days ago now at the time of this writing. To go along with that release, they have also…
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Proxmox
Proxmox VE 9 Beta Is Here: All the New Features You Need to Know
Recently, Proxmox has released Proxmox 9 Beta which looks like it will prove to be a great new release for what has become arguably one of the most popular hypervisors in the home lab and even edging into the enterprise.…
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home lab
5 Proxmox Projects to Level Up Your Home Lab This Weekend
I am a huge advocate of project-based learning and I think a little extra time on the weekend if you have a few minutes or a couple of hours in the home lab can pay out huge rewards in terms…
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Computers
Home Lab Chaos Engineering Unleashed with LitmusChaos
Create chaos in our home labs, on purpose? Is that a crazy idea? Well, it could be, but if you are into platform engineering and SRE type skills and want to do the same thing that Netflix, Google, and others…
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home lab
5 Must-Have Coding Tools to Supercharge Your Home Lab Workflow
Wow, I feel like I can’t keep up with all the awesome tools that are out there. With the explosion of AI and AI-driven workflows, there has been a flurry of activity on this front with Dev tools that absolutely…
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home lab
Home Assistant Docker Compose Design Decisions: Networking, Storage, Backups
If you have been wanting to get into Home Assistant, it is a growing ecosystem that is fun and exciting. And, if you already have a home lab environment, which most of the readers here do, you already likely have…
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home lab
Automate Your Home Lab with n8n Workflow Automation and AI
If you have not heard about a tool called N8N, please read this blog post. This is a phenomenal tool that really opens a lot of possibilities for doing things with AI agents and other workflows that would be much…
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home lab
15 Weekend-Ready Ansible Playbooks for Your Home Lab
Iโve spent countless weekends automating every corner of my home lab, and nothing feels better than kicking back on Monday morning knowing that routine tasks and projects in the home lab ran themselves over the weekend. In this post, Iโm…