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…
Tag: 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…
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…
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,…
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…
5 AI Tools for Kubernetes that will 10X your Home Lab!
Kubernetes is the defacto standard in running containers in a way that is highly available and scalable. There are many other solutions out there, like running multiple Docker hosts, Docker…
Beelink ME Mini NAS Review: Ultra-Compact Storage with 24TB Potential
This is a NAS device that really intrigued me as it is one of the coolest small form factor NAS devices I have seen. It packs some pretty serious performance…
ProxMenux Might Be the Best Proxmox Management Tool You’re Not Using
I caught wind a few weeks back of a new tool that I know I hadn’t heard about as of yet. It is called ProxMenux and after 5 minutes of…
How to Enable GPU Passthrough to LXC Containers in Proxmox
I have been playing around lately with the GPU passthrough functionality in Proxmox and looking at the best ways to run AI workloads in Proxmox. Virtual machine passthrough is a…
Still Worth It? Running AI Workloads on a GTX 1060 in 2025
If you are wanting to get into running AI models on your local workstation or home lab server, you may assume that you need to have the latest video card…