home lab
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Proxmox
Proxmox Network Configuration for Beginners including VLANs
Let’s look at Proxmox network configuration for beginners and see how you can get jump started with using it for virtualization. Table of contentsOverview of Proxmox network configurationWhat is the Linux Bridge?The Proxmox Linux BridgeChanging your IP via the command…
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Proxmox
Proxmox Storage Configuration for Beginners
Proxmox is gaining steam as the leading open-source hypervisor. It is already the “home lab darling” among the community and it is gaining traction in the enterprise as well. One of the first things you will want to do with…
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home lab
5 Tips to Get Started with a Home Lab
If you are looking at getting into running a home lab in 2025, hopefully this blog post will help those who are interested in getting into this really rewarding hobby to be successful with this as a project. I have…
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home lab
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 will be changing in their labs in 2025 and I…
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home lab
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 are, at the end of 2024. I want to take…
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Kubernetes
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 with the latest releases. Let’s take a look at FluxCD…
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home lab
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 growing pains and decision making for the home lab that…
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Kubernetes
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, I explored how viable it was to run a Docker…
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Containers
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, as well as a production swarm cluster in the home…
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Proxmox
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, which wasn’t as straightforward. I wanted to share with you…
