Why I Stopped Treating Docker Containers Like Tiny Virtual Machines
I think everyone goes through this shift as they transition their home labs from virtual machines over to containers. You tend to approach containers exactly the same way as you…
Month: July 2026
The Home Lab Projects That Taught Me the Most
There are some home lab projects that teach you a few things, and are great to incorporate. However, there are some projects that looking back on my journey, really taught…
I Tried This New Proxmox Inventory and Auditing Tool and I Was Impressed
I see so many tools listed and presented that are said to solve a problem in the Proxmox realm. I have tried many different tools over the past couple of…
The Home Lab Defaults I Never Skip
One of the things that sometimes gets overlooked with home labbing is that good defaults matter more than we might give them credit for. When I started building out lab…
The Weirdest Home Lab Network Problems I’ve Actually Run Into
There are definitely some home lab problems that are easier to diagnose. If you have a service you know about that crashes, a container that exits for some reason or…
The More I Learn, the Simpler My Home Lab Becomes
If you’ve followed my home lab journey over the past several years, you’ve probably noticed something interesting. My current production environment actually looks much less impressive than it used to.…
I Found a New Way to Manage Proxmox Without Opening the Web UI
I am always on the lookout for new and interesting tools that allow us to manage our Proxmox servers and clusters more efficiently and overall, a little easier. I stumbled…
