7 Proxmox LXC Commands That Changed How I Manage My Home Lab Containers
Proxmox has a lot of really great features that make it ideal to run your virtualization stack in the home lab. You can take advantage of either virtual machines or…
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This Free Backup Tool Just Added Docker Volume Backups
I have tried out a lot of different volume backups over the years and there are many great tools out there. However, there was a database backup tool that recently…
I Connected AI to My Proxmox Cluster Using MCP and It Was Better Than I Expected
AI is showing up literally everywhere and massively changing how things are carried out and being done. I am looking at ways that AI can benefit my home lab and…
7 Open Source Infrastructure Projects I’m Watching Closely Right Now
One of the exciting things that I love about running a home lab is discovering new community projects before they become mainstream. Every so often there are projects that appear…
The NixOS Tweaks I Wish I’d Started Using Sooner in my Home Lab
I have been moving heavily into immutable server operating systems especially for hosting my containerized home lab resources. Flatcar has been my OS of choice lately for container hosts. But…
Why I Stopped Treating Docker Containers Like Tiny Virtual Machines
I think everyone goes through this shift as they transition their home labs from virtual machines over to containers. You tend to approach containers exactly the same way as you…
The Home Lab Projects That Taught Me the Most
There are some home lab projects that teach you a few things, and are great to incorporate. However, there are some projects that looking back on my journey, really taught…
I Tried This New Proxmox Inventory and Auditing Tool and I Was Impressed
I see so many tools listed and presented that are said to solve a problem in the Proxmox realm. I have tried many different tools over the past couple of…
The Home Lab Defaults I Never Skip
One of the things that sometimes gets overlooked with home labbing is that good defaults matter more than we might give them credit for. When I started building out lab…
The Weirdest Home Lab Network Problems I’ve Actually Run Into
There are definitely some home lab problems that are easier to diagnose. If you have a service you know about that crashes, a container that exits for some reason or…