High-Availability (HA) Proxmox Clusters: Do’s & Don’ts
One of the most powerful features of running a virtualization cluster is being able to have high availability features that are built into the solution. High availability features allow you…
Proxmox Networking Best Practices for Home Labs and Downloadable Cheat Sheet!
One of the most important parts of any virtualization solution is the networking. It doesn’t matter how awesome your storage is or how many capabilities your hypervisor has if you…
Docker Security Tips for Container Hosts & Ansible Playbook
Running containers in your lab or production environment is one of the best things you can do, not only for learning, but running workloads efficiently. Over the last couple of…
How I Use Docker Labels and Compose Tricks to Organize 75+ Containers
When you start to have a large number of containers in your fleet, these can begin to become hard to manage. If you are juggling lots of services across many…
How I Use VLANs to Isolate Docker and Proxmox Services (+ Free Worksheet)
One of the core disciplines in networking that you will want to learn is segmentation. We can benefit from segmentation even in the home lab environment. You can treat your…
Wireshark 101: The 2025 Beginner’s Guide
If you are like me, when you manage networks, whether in the home lab or production environment, you probably use tools like ping, traceroute, netstat, etc. These are great tools…
5 Killer AI Projects You Can Try in a Weekend
You don’t need cloud credits or racks of GPUs to experiment with powerful AI tools. Thanks to lean local models and awesome open-source tools, you can build your own AI…
The Great VMware Exodus, Real Migration Stories and Alternatives for 2025
We have seen/are seeing a seismic shift in the virtualization space after Broadcom completed the $61 billion acquisition of VMware in November 2023. What has followed has been a complete…
Install Google Gemini CLI in Windows for AI Command Line!
There is new buzz around the Google Gemini platform as Google has taken a major step for devs, sysadmins, and CLI power users. They have released the Gemini CLI. This…
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…