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…
Category: Containers
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…
Best 5 Docker Container Operating Systems in 2025 (Home Lab & Enterprise Picks)
If you are starting to run containers in 2025 in the home lab or production environments, the operating system you choose is the foundation that starts it all. Since containers…
Stop Using .env Files: Docker Secrets Made Easy with Doppler
One of the things that gets “hard” when you start caring about the security of your Docker containers is managing your secrets. It is a tricky bit that you need…
Visualize Your Docker-Compose with Mermaid + docker-compose-viz This Weekend
I have been big into documenting my home lab and finding tools that are great for creating documentation for my DevOps processes in the lab and in production. This has…
