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Computers
DevOps Roadmap 2025: A Hands-On Path to Mastery from Home Lab to Automation
If you’re like me, you’ve probably noticed that the world of DevOps is more accessible than ever. This is especially true if you’re willing to roll up your sleeves and build things in your own home lab. I personally think…
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VMware
VMware Cloud Foundation VCF 9.0 Released New Features
Well, we have heard about it for quite some time now, but VMware Cloud Foundation VCF 9.0 is here. It has a lot of new enhancements that will provide a lot of new tools for next-gen workloads. Like we have…
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Self hosted
CoreControl Is the New Self-Hosted Dashboard Built for Home Labs
Keeping visibility into your home lab over self-hosted services is a critical task. Let’s look at a new home lab dashboard called CoreControl that provides a free open-source dashboard that is a great solution in the home lab. What is…
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Containers
Docker Rollout: Zero-Downtime Deployments for Docker Compose Made Simple
Have you worked with Docker compose and ever wanted to have a proper blue/green deployment for making sure your services stay up and running when you update them? We have all experienced going down for a few seconds or a…
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Self hosted
OmniTools: A Swiss Army Knife of Self-Hosted Utilities
I love really cool self-hosted tools that allow you to have total control over the solution and helps to avoid “free” online services that are riddled with ads, telemetry data and other undesirables. I want to introduce you to OmniTools…
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home lab
NetAlertX Self-Hosted Network Monitoring for Home Labs
Knowing what is on your network is a huge part of network security. We can document devices and other aspects of the network. However, what if a device appears on the network unannounced or not really in an expected way.…
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DevOps
TeamCity CI CD: Why Developers Are Choosing it for Modern DevOps Pipelines
I have played around with a lot of CI/CD tools in the past few years now. However, a new one to me that I have not played around with was TeamCity. In installing and using it though, I can see…
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DevOps
10 Ways to Transition from IT admin to DevOps Engineer
In what I would call the second half of my professional career I have been making the transition from a traditional server administrator, virtualization engineer, IT specialist to a DevOps engineer and cloud architect. This is a transition that I…
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Kubernetes
KubeSolo New Kubernetes Edge Distro by Portainer
When I saw Neil Cresswell’s (Portainer’s CEO) post on LinkedIn about a new Kubernetes distribution that was about to be released by Portainer, this got my attention. The new distro, called KubeSolo, was purpose-built to be for Kubernetes environments that…
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Proxmox
Getting Started with Proxmox VE E-book Download
With so many now looking at spinning up Proxmox in the home lab and even the enterprise, NAKIVO is offering a really great resource in a free e-book for download that helps ones get up and running quickly with Proxmox.…
