Why Talos Omni Kubernetes Has Changed My Home Lab
There are a lot of great ways to run Kubernetes in your home lab. I have covered many of these from running k3s to running a Minikube cluster on Ubuntu…
Tag: containers
I Replaced Nginx Proxy Manager with Traefik in My Home Lab and It Changed Everything
I have been using Nginx Proxy Manager (NPM) for quite some time now, a few years from what I remember. It is a great solution and one that I point…
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…
Top Docker Performance Tweaks on Low-Power Hardware
There are two things that I highly recommend for modern home lab environments, Docker and low-power mini PCs. Docker provides a much more efficient way to run apps compared to…
Build Your Own Arpwatch Docker Container to Watch Your Network
If you are looking for a solution to monitor Ethernet address changes in your network, arp monitoring is a great way to do this. ARP or address resolution protocol is…
Secure Nginx Proxy Manager Admin Interface with SSL
I really like Nginx Proxy Manager to secure my Docker containers running onย Docker hostsย with SSL certificates. I find it to be extremely intuitive and it is absolutely one of those…
Best Containers for DevOps in 2025
I use a LOT of Docker containers in the home lab and in myย DevOps journeyย to continually work with various code projects, automation, and just running applications in containers. There are…
Docker Swarm is Awesome with Portainer
I have been revisiting how I have been running containers in my home lab. While Kubernetes is awesome, and I continue to run various deployments of it in the home…
GlusterFS configuration in Ubuntu Server 22.04 and 24.04
In preparing to spin up a home lab Docker Swarm cluster, I wanted to get a working GlusterFS configuration setup on my Ubuntu Server virtual machines. Let’s look at what…
Best Docker Container Commands You Aren’t Using
Docker has a lot of functionality from the command line and has built-in commands that allow doing a lot of different things with your containers. However, there are several Docker…