Virtualization, Cloud, DevOps, Reviews
An aspect of maintaining a production environment or home lab environment that I have personally never really enjoyed is patching. However, it is one of those necessary evils when you…
Running your own self-hosted environment usually means you are going to be running Linux servers at some point (or you should be). Linux provides one of the most robust and…
I have been on a kick lately of trying out various Linux distros. The Linux distro ecosystem has had some really great introductions over the past couple of years. Just…
If you have been itching to switch to something different than Windows and you have been tempted to move to Linux, but have been afraid to do so, there is…
Linux is one of the best choices for self-hosting applications. It is generally very fast, lightweight, and lacks the bloat of other operating systems like Windows Server OS when it…
I have to say that this is one that I am really excited about. The Minisforum N5 Pro NAS will be Minisforum’s first foray into the NAS world. However, they…
Working with the oVirt Node install recently re-familiarized me with the Cockpit utility and made me want to play around with it a bit more on vanilla Ubuntu Server installations.…
I recently wrote a blog post about replacing traditional Windows scheduled tasks with a CI/CD pipeline and the automation it provides. There are so many advantages to running something like…
If you are looking to replace RHEL with another distribution, there are two that comes to mind. These are Almalinux and Rocky Linux. Both were designed for 1-to-1 compatibility with…
This may very well be the year of KVM-based hypervisors in 2024, aside from other options like Microsoft Hyper-V. Many are looking at different options this year for virtualization technologies…
