Category: home lab

There are so many new tools out there for home lab related activities. So, I have to pick and choose what I decide to test out in my home lab.…

One of the exciting things that I love about running a home lab is discovering new community projects before they become mainstream. Every so often there are projects that appear…

There are some home lab projects that teach you a few things, and are great to incorporate. However, there are some projects that looking back on my journey, really taught…

One of the things that sometimes gets overlooked with home labbing is that good defaults matter more than we might give them credit for. When I started building out lab…

There are definitely some home lab problems that are easier to diagnose. If you have a service you know about that crashes, a container that exits for some reason or…

If you’ve followed my home lab journey over the past several years, you’ve probably noticed something interesting. My current production environment actually looks much less impressive than it used to.…

One of the core monitoring components of my home lab is uptime monitoring. In other words, are my apps, services, web resources, etc up and running? Is anything down? I…

The home lab world has changed dramatically over the last few years and it continues to change. Not long ago, most of us were building traditional virtualization stacks, a handful…