I Thought My DNS Was Fine Until I Started Monitoring This
I am all about monitoring things in my home lab and with DNS being so important, if there is one service to monitor, this is it. DNS is at the…
Author: Brandon Lee
Brandon Lee is the Senior Writer, Engineer and owner at Virtualizationhowto.com, and a 7-time VMware vExpert, with over two decades of experience in Information Technology. Having worked for numerous Fortune 500 companies as well as in various industries, He has extensive experience in various IT segments and is a strong advocate for open source technologies. Brandon holds many industry certifications, loves the outdoors and spending time with family. Also, he goes through the effort of testing and troubleshooting issues, so you don't have to.
These Downloadable AI Skills Made My Home Lab Agents Much More Useful
I have spent a lot of time experimenting with AI agents in my home lab over the past year. I have connected them to services through MCP servers as you…
This Lightweight Docker Tool Solves One of My Biggest Home Lab Annoyances
One of the biggest frustrations with running docker containers in the home lab is not usually the “big” complex problems. It usually comes down to the small tasks that slowly…
This Free Docker Dashboard Shows Your Entire Stack in 3D
Every once in a while I come across an open source project that immediately makes me stop what I’m doing and spin up a test container in the home lab.…
9 Proxmox Cleanup Tasks You Probably Forgot
Cleanup tasks are usually not something that we get overly excited about. However, one thing that I do get excited about is making my lab run better and having fewer…
The Proxmox LXC Settings I Never Skip Before Deployment
One of the coolest things you can do with Proxmox is spin up LXC Containers (Linux Containers). These are used heavily by those who are self-hosting services in their home…
I Connected AI to Cloudflare and It Changed How I Manage My Home Lab
For the last several months, AI has become a large part of just about every single project that I work on in the home lab, either directly or indirectly on…
The Hidden Proxmox Feature That Includes 100+ TurnKey Linux Appliances
One of the things that I like about Proxmox is that it continues to surprise me with its capabilities and things you get out of the box. Even though i…
7 GitOps Tools for Docker Compose to Try This Weekend
Docker compose is definitely one of the core technologies in my home lab. I use it to deploy “everything” as it just makes life simple and easy. Believe it or…
This New Open Source Tool Completely Changed How I Manage My Home Lab
There are so many new tools out there for home lab related activities. So, I have to pick and choose what I decide to test out in my home lab.…
