automation
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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, I covered n8n which is a tremendously powerful workflow automation…
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home lab
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 of activity on this front with Dev tools that absolutely…
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home lab
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 with AI agents and other workflows that would be much…
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home lab
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 lab ran themselves over the weekend. In this post, I’m…
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Automation
Ansible Semaphore UI: My New Go-To Infrastructure Automation Tool
A couple of years ago now, I wrote about Ansible Semaphore which brings an awesome UI to Ansible and it is a MUCH simpler tool to get up and running and use than something like Ansible AWX. However, since I…
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VMware
New Scheduled Task to Delete Snapshots in vSphere 8.0 Update 3
In case you have not seen as of yet, one of the new features that is a welcomed addition to vSphere 8.0 Update 3 is a new built-in scheduled task feature that gets rid of snapshots on virtual machines. This…
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Proxmox
Proxmox Packer Template for Ubuntu 24.04
I have been playing around with Packer and getting templates updated in the home lab. In moving more into Proxmox in the lab environment, I wanted to get similar templates in place as I have with VMware vSphere. Let’s look…
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DevOps
Ubuntu 24.04 Packer Template for VMware
Now that the release of Ubuntu 24.04 LTS is official with Ubuntu dropping news of the release today of both the new Desktop and Server, it’s time to start updating some automation in the home lab. I wanted to test…
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Proxmox
Top 10 Proxmox CLI Commands for Ultimate Control in 2024
One of the great things about Proxmox VE Server is that it contains very powerful command line utilities for controlling, configuring, and managing your Proxmox server. There are many Proxmox CLI utilities you need to know for ultimate control over…
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home lab
Automate Home Lab Server Updates with GitLab CI CD
I recently wrote a blog post about replacing traditional Windows scheduled tasks with a CI/CD pipeline and the automation it provides. There are so many advantages to running something like Gitlab in your home lab to centralize your automation and…
