How To Run GPU-Enabled Containers in Your Home Lab
GPUs are definitely no longer just for gamers or crypto miners. They are also now the essential hardware when it comes to AI, media encoding, and things like machine learning.…
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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.
LogForge is the Must-Have Self-Hosted Docker Dashboard for Logs and Alerts
Recently, you may have seen some automation I have been doing with AI to self-heal and correct things in the home lab. One of those workflows I have been using…
Top 10 Automation Scripts Every Home Lab Should Have in 2025
If you want to take your home lab to a home lab 2.0, it’s all about automation. The more of your environment you can have self-manage, the more time you…
Proxmox Cloud-Init Made Easy: Automating VM Provisioning Like the Cloud
There are so many great tools that you can use to automate provisioning a virtual machine in your home lab when running on Proxmox. However, if you are using manual…
Best Self-Hosted AI Tools You Can Actually Run in Your Home Lab
There is no question that AI tools and self-hosted AI is becoming one of the most popular self-hosted applications in home labs at the end of 2025 and beyond. Artificial…
Why You Need an Immutable Home Lab Server OS
Have you ever sunk a weekend into fixing a Linux system that broke after you applied an update or lost track of configuration tweaks that you made? Maybe you forgot…
Minisforum MS-02 Ultra Has Insane Home Lab Potential with 256GB RAM, Triple PCIe, and 25Gb Networking
I continue to get more and more excited about the mini PC space and what is possible in the small form factor of computing. I am still rocking two MS-01’s…
How I Keep My Home Lab Safe While Experimenting with New Tools
What are we talking about? Keep a home lab safe??? Well, it is easy to get carried away when you run a home lab. The whole point of having one…
Best Terraform Modules for Home Labs in 2025
There is no question that Terraform is my favorite infrastructure as code tool in the home lab for standing up infrastructure. Ansible is my favorite for configuration management. With Terraform,…
How I Built a Self-Healing Home Lab That Fixes Itself
We have exciting times to be able to run a home lab with all the automation, AI, and other tools available to us to use. In fact, I am more…