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.

home lab

Brandon Lee4 weeks ago
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10 Docker Projects You Can Build in a Weekend and Actually Use!

Do yourself a favor and get accustomed to project-based learning. This is my philosophy to the most effective learning you can do. A home lab is a great way to do this. AND, getting into using containers will totally change…
home lab

Brandon LeeJuly 31, 2025
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Stop Exposing Your Home Lab – Do This Instead

Like most, when I first spun up my home lab, one of the first things I wanted to do like anyone is to be able to hit my home lab services from the Internet. And, I did this for a…
home lab

Brandon LeeJuly 30, 2025
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Automate Your Home Lab in Hours Not Days with Kestra!

I feel like anymore there is an absolute smorgasbord of great automation tools that we have access to, especially now in the age of AI. So many great solutions. Recently, I covered n8n which is a tremendously powerful workflow automation…
Proxmox

Brandon LeeJuly 29, 2025
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Proxmox Backup Server 4.0 Beta Released – Try the New Features Today!

If you have been following along with my post from yesterday, Proxmox has released Proxmox VE Server 9 Beta just a few days ago now at the time of this writing. To go along with that release, they have also…
Proxmox

Brandon LeeJuly 28, 2025
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Proxmox VE 9 Beta Is Here: All the New Features You Need to Know

Recently, Proxmox has released Proxmox 9 Beta which looks like it will prove to be a great new release for what has become arguably one of the most popular hypervisors in the home lab and even edging into the enterprise.…
home lab

Brandon LeeJuly 25, 2025
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5 Proxmox Projects to Level Up Your Home Lab This Weekend

I am a huge advocate of project-based learning and I think a little extra time on the weekend if you have a few minutes or a couple of hours in the home lab can pay out huge rewards in terms…
Computers

Brandon LeeJuly 24, 2025
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Home Lab Chaos Engineering Unleashed with LitmusChaos

Create chaos in our home labs, on purpose? Is that a crazy idea? Well, it could be, but if you are into platform engineering and SRE type skills and want to do the same thing that Netflix, Google, and others…
home lab

Brandon LeeJuly 23, 2025
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5 Must-Have Coding Tools to Supercharge Your Home Lab Workflow

Wow, I feel like I can’t keep up with all the awesome tools that are out there. With the explosion of AI and AI-driven workflows, there has been a flurry of activity on this front with Dev tools that absolutely…
home lab

Brandon LeeJuly 22, 2025
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Home Assistant Docker Compose Design Decisions: Networking, Storage, Backups

If you have been wanting to get into Home Assistant, it is a growing ecosystem that is fun and exciting. And, if you already have a home lab environment, which most of the readers here do, you already likely have…
home lab

Brandon LeeJuly 21, 2025
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Automate Your Home Lab with n8n Workflow Automation and AI

If you have not heard about a tool called N8N, please read this blog post. This is a phenomenal tool that really opens a lot of possibilities for doing things with AI agents and other workflows that would be much…