I Tried New Proxmox Tools in May 2026 and Only a Few Made the Cut
If you have been running Proxmox in your home lab for any amount of time, you already know the ecosystem has been growing fast and rightly so. There are more…
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I Can Finally See My Entire Home Lab and It Changed How I Troubleshoot
If you saw my earlier post a few weeks back covering Scanopy, you already know there are many different solutions out there that can scan your network and generate diagrams…
I Tried Traefik Manager in My Home Lab and It Makes Traefik Much Easier
If you have been running Traefik or you have thought about running Traefik, you probably fall into one of two schools of thought. You probably either love Traefik due to…
I Use Packer to Automate Ubuntu Server 26.04 on Proxmox and It Saves Me Hours
I am a huge fan of automation in the home lab and have long had pipelines running that automate deployments of virtual machines in my VMware vSphere and now Proxmox…
I Replaced My Monitoring Stack and This Just Works in My Home Lab
I am always on the lookout for new and better tools for monitoring in the home lab environment to keep an eye on self-hosted apps and services. There are a…
I Can Rebuild My Home Lab From Scratch in Hours and These 5 Habits Made It Possible
If you have ever worked at rebuilding your home lab from scratch or even part of it, you know how painful this can be. This could possibly turn into a…
Proxmox 9.1.8 Finally Rebalances HA Workloads Automatically
For those migrating to Proxmox from “another hypervisor”, there are always the discussions around what features may be missing or work different from what they are coming from. If you…
I Deployed My Own Flatcar Linux Update Server and Here’s What Actually Happened
I have been having a blast trying out container-specific operating systems. As of recently I have tried out a couple including Lightwhale and Flatcar. Both have been very good in…
I Installed Flatcar Linux on Proxmox and It’s Not Like a Normal Linux VM
There are many great Linux operating systems that I have used in the home lab for running containers. You may have seen my recent post on Lightwhale in my home…
The Biggest Docker Mistakes I Still See in Home Labs (And How I Fix Them)
Docker is a super powerful tool that you can use in your home lab. I think for me personally, a turning point was when I started running mostly containerized services.…