Home Labs are changing in 2025
Why do I say this? Well, I am like everyone and just monitoring and reading and hearing what others are talking about. There seem to be several things that many…
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Home Lab Tour 2024: Hardware, Software, Containers and More!
Well, what a year it has been! Wow, I can’t believe how many changes we have seen this year and bumps in the road along the way. But, here we…
FluxCD How to Modify Kustomize Image Tag
One of the coolest things that you can do with FluxCD and using Flux for GitOps is modifying your Kustomize image tag so that you can keep your pods updated…
Top 5 Home Lab Projects I have Tackled in 2024
As I look back on 2024, when it comes to my learning and labbing adventures, it has been quite a fruitful year along those lines. I really have enjoyed the…
Kubernetes Home Lab with Microk8s, Microceph, and Portainer
As you guys know I have been exploring what I think are really great setups from a standpoint of a home lab and also for learning purposes in production. Recently,…
10 Best Docker Container Stacks I am using in 2024
I have been using tons of Docker stacks this year and moving into 2025, that doesn’t look to be slowing down for me. I have several standalone Docker container hosts,…
Windows Server 2025 Proxmox Packer Build Fully Automated
Since updating my VMware vSphere Packer build template for Windows Server 2025 (you can read that here: Windows Server 2025 Packer Build for VMware vSphere), I decided to tackle Proxmox,…
Split Horizon DNS: How I Resolve a Subset of DNS Records locally
One of the core aspects of any network, whether it be your home lab network or an enterprise network is DNS. It’s always DNS right? DNS has been described as…
Gitea vs GitLab: Which one for Home Lab?
If you are looking for a self-hosted git solution that will allow you to host your own git repositories, there are probably two solutions that you will see come up…
Netdata Docker Monitoring for Home Lab
I have been playing around with a lot of Docker monitoring solutions to monitor my critical Docker containers. There are many great open source solutions you can use for Docker…