I Took Docker Container Monitoring to the Next Level With These 3 Tools
I feel like the pieces of Docker monitoring with recent tools brought online in the home lab has finally started to fall into place. For a long time in my…
Category: Containers
Docker Is Slowly Filling Up Your Home Lab Disk Space (And the Tool I Use to Fix It)
Well, it is happening, there is another casualty of the AI boom and that is hard drives. Just in the last couple of days, news of hard drive price increases…
LoggiFly Is the Docker Log Alerting Tool I Didn’t Know I Needed
Docker logs are definitely one of the first places I look when troubleshooting issues with containers. It is often where you will find the root cause of the issue that…
What’s Up Docker Keeps Your Home Lab Containers Updated Automatically
Each time I mention Watchtower for container updates, I generally have comments that Watchtower is a very stale project. This is definitely true as it hasn’t had any updates in…
Lazy Docker Is the Easiest Way to Manage Home Lab Containers From Your Terminal
When you start out in the home lab managing containers, this always starts out fairly simple when you have one or two containers. You might even introduce a reverse proxy…
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.…
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…
How to Run Docker on Proxmox the Right Way (and Avoid Common Mistakes)
With most running Proxmox or leaning towards running Proxmox in the home lab for the foreseeable future, running Docker containers on top of a Proxmox environment is a given. Proxmox…
Best Docker containers for Docker Desktop in 2025
Docker Desktop is a great tool to run containers locally. It also provides a great interface to work with your containers and many features. While we may choose to run…
Why Talos Omni Kubernetes Has Changed My Home Lab
There are a lot of great ways to run Kubernetes in your home lab. I have covered many of these from running k3s to running a Minikube cluster on Ubuntu…
