home lab
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Networking
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 and can help you diagnose simple network problems very quickly.…
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AI
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 stack in a weekend. You can do all of this…
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Kubernetes
Freelens is an Open Source and Free Kubernetes IDE for 2025!
I have been playing around with various Kubernetes IDE solutions for years now and there are many different ones that offer great solutions for working with Kubernetes to be honest. I have written about and have been showing solutions like…
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Self hosted
CoreControl Is the New Self-Hosted Dashboard Built for Home Labs
Keeping visibility into your home lab over self-hosted services is a critical task. Let’s look at a new home lab dashboard called CoreControl that provides a free open-source dashboard that is a great solution in the home lab. What is…
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Containers
Docker Rollout: Zero-Downtime Deployments for Docker Compose Made Simple
Have you worked with Docker compose and ever wanted to have a proper blue/green deployment for making sure your services stay up and running when you update them? We have all experienced going down for a few seconds or a…
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Self hosted
OmniTools: A Swiss Army Knife of Self-Hosted Utilities
I love really cool self-hosted tools that allow you to have total control over the solution and helps to avoid “free” online services that are riddled with ads, telemetry data and other undesirables. I want to introduce you to OmniTools…
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home lab
NetAlertX Self-Hosted Network Monitoring for Home Labs
Knowing what is on your network is a huge part of network security. We can document devices and other aspects of the network. However, what if a device appears on the network unannounced or not really in an expected way.…
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DevOps
10 Ways to Transition from IT admin to DevOps Engineer
In what I would call the second half of my professional career I have been making the transition from a traditional server administrator, virtualization engineer, IT specialist to a DevOps engineer and cloud architect. This is a transition that I…
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Kubernetes
KubeSolo New Kubernetes Edge Distro by Portainer
When I saw Neil Cresswell’s (Portainer’s CEO) post on LinkedIn about a new Kubernetes distribution that was about to be released by Portainer, this got my attention. The new distro, called KubeSolo, was purpose-built to be for Kubernetes environments that…
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AI
DeepSeek R1-0528 Released: Open-Source AI Model Rivals GPT-4 and Gemini
DeepSeek has set the world buzzing again as it is gaining recognition as a powerful, open-source large language model (LLM) that challenges models from the major tech players. In their newest update to DeepSeek, deepseek r1-0528, they have signification improved…
