Top 10 Automation Scripts Every Home Lab Should Have in 2025
If you want to take your home lab to a home lab 2.0, it’s all about automation. The more of your environment you can have self-manage, the more time you…
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Best Self-Hosted AI Tools You Can Actually Run in Your Home Lab
There is no question that AI tools and self-hosted AI is becoming one of the most popular self-hosted applications in home labs at the end of 2025 and beyond. Artificial…
Why You Need an Immutable Home Lab Server OS
Have you ever sunk a weekend into fixing a Linux system that broke after you applied an update or lost track of configuration tweaks that you made? Maybe you forgot…
How I Keep My Home Lab Safe While Experimenting with New Tools
What are we talking about? Keep a home lab safe??? Well, it is easy to get carried away when you run a home lab. The whole point of having one…
Best Terraform Modules for Home Labs in 2025
There is no question that Terraform is my favorite infrastructure as code tool in the home lab for standing up infrastructure. Ansible is my favorite for configuration management. With Terraform,…
How I Built a Self-Healing Home Lab That Fixes Itself
We have exciting times to be able to run a home lab with all the automation, AI, and other tools available to us to use. In fact, I am more…
TrueNAS Connect Open Beta Just Dropped and its A Game-Changer for Home and Enterprise NAS
In case you haven’t seen the news, TrueNAS announced a new open beta of a new and exciting app called, TrueNAS Connect. It is a hosted, management interface that is…
Weekend Home Lab Challenges to Level Up Your Skills
Every accomplishment in the home lab starts with curiosity about various technologies. That to me, is the spark that motivates all of us. We want to try new things, break…
Ultimate Home Lab Backup Strategy (2025 Edition)
Backups are never the “fun” part of a home lab and honestly it may be one of the last things you think about. I know for me the most exciting…
The 5 Home Lab Upgrades that Changed Everything for Me
When I say that my home lab has changed over the years, that is definitely an understatement. It has gone through several iterations of build outs. Most of the upgrades…