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…
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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…
I Added Break-Glass Accounts Before My Home Lab Locked Me Out
One of the coolest things that you can do is centralize your authentication in the home lab. So, instead of having all kinds of separate usernames and passwords that are…
I Don’t Trust a Home Lab Service Until It Passes These 7 Tests
When it comes to putting a new service into the home lab that is something I will feel like I can rely on and trust, it has to be able…
If I Had 2 Hours for My Home Lab This Weekend, I’d Do These 7 Things
Let’s face it, our time in the home lab among other things we have going on in our lives and families may be hard to come by and there are…
