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.

Kubernetes

Brandon Lee16 hours ago
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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.…
home lab

Brandon Lee2 days ago
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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…
home lab

Brandon Lee3 days ago
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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…
Containers

Brandon Lee4 days ago
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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…
home lab

Brandon Lee7 days ago
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5 Storage Projects to Supercharge Your Home Lab This Weekend

Storage is one of the coolest projects that you can undertake in your home lab as most apps or services that you want to self-host will have the need to store things. Aside from specific app data, you will likely…
Proxmox

Brandon Lee1 week ago
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Top Security Hardening Steps for Proxmox VE 9

Proxmox VE 9 is the latest in the release of Proxmox VE Server now that it is generally available. Many are now looking at upgrading their Proxmox VE 8.x instances to 9. However, outside of the new features and capabilities,…
home lab

Brandon Lee1 week ago
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How to Totally Control DNS in Your Home Lab

When you start building a home lab, one of the first things you realize is how important DNS is. Every service you run, including Proxmox, Docker containers, Kubernetes clusters, or even something simple depends on DNS resolving correctly. Many when…
home lab

Brandon Lee1 week ago
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7 Ways to Make Your Home Lab More Resilient to Power Outages

I can tell you that when you are on a consumer power grid, one of the biggest headaches with running a home lab is power outages. When you don’t have your lab setup in the right way to handle power…
home lab

Brandon Lee2 weeks ago
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10 Open-Source AI Models You Should Try In Your Home Lab (August 2025)

I am loving being able to try out so many cool new AI models in 2025. There are so many great options to choose from now. Who would have thought we would have had so many different models from different…
home lab

Brandon Lee2 weeks ago
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8 Virtual Machine Projects You Need to Build This Weekend!

I have been focused a lot on containerized development and DevOps lately and many of the weekend projects I have written about have been focused there. However, for those that love projects involving virtual machines, these are still very much…