10 Docker Projects You Can Build in a Weekend and Actually Use!
Do yourself a favor and get accustomed to project-based learning. This is my philosophy to the most effective learning you can do. A home lab is a great way to…
Category: home lab
Stop Exposing Your Home Lab – Do This Instead
Like most, when I first spun up my home lab, one of the first things I wanted to do like anyone is to be able to hit my home lab…
Automate Your Home Lab in Hours Not Days with Kestra!
I feel like anymore there is an absolute smorgasbord of great automation tools that we have access to, especially now in the age of AI. So many great solutions. Recently,…
5 Proxmox Projects to Level Up Your Home Lab This Weekend
I am a huge advocate of project-based learning and I think a little extra time on the weekend if you have a few minutes or a couple of hours in…
5 Must-Have Coding Tools to Supercharge Your Home Lab Workflow
Wow, I feel like I can’t keep up with all the awesome tools that are out there. With the explosion of AI and AI-driven workflows, there has been a flurry…
Home Assistant Docker Compose Design Decisions: Networking, Storage, Backups
If you have been wanting to get into Home Assistant, it is a growing ecosystem that is fun and exciting. And, if you already have a home lab environment, which…
Automate Your Home Lab with n8n Workflow Automation and AI
If you have not heard about a tool called N8N, please read this blog post. This is a phenomenal tool that really opens a lot of possibilities for doing things…
15 Weekend-Ready Ansible Playbooks for Your Home Lab
I’ve spent countless weekends automating every corner of my home lab, and nothing feels better than kicking back on Monday morning knowing that routine tasks and projects in the home…
Run Your Home Lab with Infrastructure as Code Like a Boss
There has never been a better time to get into coding things, especially infrastructure as code. There are so many powerful AI tools available now so the barrier to entry…
My Favorite Home Lab Tools in 2025 (So Far): Projects I Keep Coming Back To
There are definitely tools that I keep coming back to in the home lab and that are the core of what I would call what runs most of my lab…