Do You Really Need a Full-Sized Rack for Your Home Lab in 2025?
In 2025, home labs are more powerful and smaller than ever, thanks to mini PCs. Mini PCs with AMD Ryzen or Intel Core Ultra processors now have up to 32…
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Why You Should Be Vibe Coding in Your Home Lab Right Now!
The phrase “vibe coding” is all around us and a lot of times it is in a negative light due to some of the changes going on in the industry…
Best Traefik Plugins for Home Lab and Production (My Top Picks)
Traefik is one of my favorite reverse proxies and it stands out for a number of reasons, including how easy it is to use it with infrastructure as code and…
I Added Authentik SSO to My Home Lab with Docker-Compose: Logging In Will Never Be the Same
I have been experimenting with SSO lately in the home lab and decided to give Authentik a try. And let me tell you, it is a crazy good self-hosted SSO…
TerraMaster D1 SSD Plus Review: Blazing Fast Storage for Creators and Home Labs
The portable SSD market has exploded in recent years. When Terramaster sent over the D1 SSD Plus for me to take a look at, it was an intriguing little device…
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…
Visualize Your Docker-Compose with Mermaid + docker-compose-viz This Weekend
I have been big into documenting my home lab and finding tools that are great for creating documentation for my DevOps processes in the lab and in production. This has…
How to Install Talos Omni On-Prem for Effortless Kubernetes Management
Kubernetes is one of the most complex architectures and solutions in modern infrastructure. When it comes to K8s, we need to manage control planes, worker nodes, certificates, upgrades, and lifecycle…
Top Home lab Networking Mistakes to Avoid in 2025
Networking is literally the lifeblood of your home lab. If the network is no good, then everything else is going to fall down. Things won’t perform well, and you will…
Portainer 2.33 LTS Released with Alerting, New Look, Helm Overhaul and More!
Portainer has long been on the lists of best Docker tools that you can use in the home lab and in production environments. REcently, they have announced the new Portainer…
