I Tried This Home Lab App Store and It Made Podman Much Easier
I have been flirting around with Podman in my home lab and have been testing it more than in the past as of recently. You may have seen my recent…
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I Tried Warpgate to Secure Access to My Home Lab. Here’s What I Found
If you have been looking at setting up a Bastion host or secure jump box for accessing your home lab services, there are always challenges with this and things to…
6 Home Lab Projects to Try This Weekend: October 2, 2026
This week has been a blur of different projects and things I have tried out and tested in the home lab. But from it, has come a lot of really…
7 Linux Commands Most People Discover Too Late in Their Home Lab
One of the primary learning exercises that I think can benefit most in the home lab is getting more familiar with Linux. Linux though, has a way of letting you…
Your Home Lab VLANs May Not Be Isolated Without This Firewall Configuration
Most of you like me, have probably used VLANs in the home lab for many years now as this is a representation of what we do in production. We use…
I Put TrueNAS on a Grafana Dashboard. Then It Showed 12.7 PB of ARC.
I recently finished building a new TrueNAS configuration for use with my Proxmox VE server for additional iSCSI storage in the home lab. Take a look at my build post…
5 Home Lab Projects to Try This Weekend: September 25, 2026
This past week for me in the home lab has included a LOT of cool things and really good learning experiences. It has covered the gamut from wiping out my…
Portainer 3.0 Changes Direction. What Does It Mean for Docker Home Labs?
If there has been one name that has been synoymous with “container management”, that name has been Portainer. I have used it for years now and have always thought of…
Pangolin 1.23 Just Made High Availability Clustering Self-Service for Home Labs
If you haven’t heard about Pangolin, I wrote up a full walkthrough with the solution back in September of last year. You can read that post here: Why Pangolin is…
7 New Home Lab Projects to Try This Weekend: September 18, 2026
Well, as you all know, I love project based learning. I think it produces some of the best results of any type of learning you can do. When you have…
