The 9 Things My Home Lab Automates While I’m Sleeping
When I think about one of the things that I am most proud of in my home lab in 2026 it is the level of automation and “self sufficiency” that…
Tag: automation
What Worked Great Until My Home Lab Got Bigger (And Why I Moved On)
Like everything else in a home lab, change is inevitable. There are certain tools that served me well at a certain point or size of my home lab that I…
Stop Drawing Network Diagrams Manually Scanopy Does It for You
Keeping your network diagrams up to date can be a chore. You already probably know how this story ends. You start out having good intentions and use something like draw.io…
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…
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…
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 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…
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…
