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…
Category: 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…
How to Mirror Your On-Premises GitLab Repo to GitLab Cloud for Resiliency
I use Gitlab extensively in the home lab for various purposes and running my CI/CD pipelines. Even though I back up my Gitlab environment and container data, I still want…
Spring Cleaning Your Home Lab with 5 Ways to Optimize and Save Resources
Every spring many like to take a look around the house and see things they could get rid of, donate, or just downsize. This is usually beneficial and keeps things…
Best Budget GPU for AI in Your Home Server 2025
The heart of running AI workloads at home is the GPU installed in your AI workstation or AI server. If you are running local LLMs like LLaMA or looking to…
Rate My Best Home Server Build aka Workstation!
So, my new build is kicking off! Thanks to a motherboard sent over by Minisforum, the BD790i X3D with the AMD Ryzen 9 7945X3D processor. This little board packs a…
Free Up Disk Space in your Kubernetes Cluster
If you run Docker container hosts either standalone or in a Docker Swarm cluster, you are probably familiar with the built-in command docker system prune -a -f. Using this command…
Portainer Alternative Komodo for Docker Stack Management and Deployment
I really like free and open source solutions that allow doing amazing things in the home lab and even in production environments. Recently, I stumbled on a project called Komodo.…
Netdata 2.0 Adds Native Windows Monitoring Support
I have been trying out Netdata monitoring for the past few weeks now and I can say that it is a super simple solution to get up and running with…
MacVLAN Docker Configuration and Virtual Switch Setup in VMware ESXi
If you are working with Docker containers, one of the challenges and skills that you need to effectively spin up containerized workloads is understanding Docker networking. There is a neat…