The Best Infrastructure Decisions I Made This Year
It has been quite a year already in my home lab when it comes to infrastructure and the decisions I have made so far. This year I have made some…
Year: 2026
What I Learned After Migrating Fully Away From VMware
From the beginning of 2026, I have written a lot about my journey of moving away from VMware which you can read about here: I Spent a Year Running Proxmox…
I Changed My Default Proxmox Console and It Improved Everything
One of the things I never paid much attention to when I first started using Proxmox was the console option used for accessing my virtual machines. Like most people, I…
I Built a Local AI Coding Agent Home Lab Setup With OpenCode and Ollama
One of the interesting trends that is happening across all industries is the rise of AI and AI-integrated tooling. I think most of us have experimented with running local LLMs…
This Lightweight Proxmox Tool Makes CLI Management Faster
One of the things I have noticed recently in the Proxmox ecosystem is that many tools are becoming much larger and more complex. That is not necessarily a bad thing.…
The Storage Mistakes That Quietly Hurt Your Proxmox Performance
One of the things I have learned after running Proxmox clusters full time in the home lab is that storage problems can be more difficult to spot than something like…
5 Proxmox Optimizations Worth Doing This Weekend
If you are anything like me, your Proxmox environment probably started simple and then slowly evolved over time. Maybe it began with a single node running a few VMs. Then…
Why Proxmox Wasn’t Reclaiming Storage Until I Fixed This Setting
Maybe you have been in this situation where you know you are deleting data inside your virtual machines running in Proxmox. You see the disk usage drop inside the guest…
Proxmox Networking Mistakes That Quietly Break Your Home Lab
On the surface of things, I really like Proxmox networking. It is straightforward and based around Linux bridges which are powerful in their own right. You get the default Linux…
I Tried This New Open Source Kubernetes Dashboard and It’s Surprisingly Good
I have been through a lot of the Kubernetes dashboards in my home lab and now that I am running my home lab “production” workloads on Kubernetes, I am keenly…