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A quick story on how to configure Pihole on Docker Swarm and use Nginx Proxy Manager to provide SSL termination for your Pi-hole instance. Check out the docker-compose.yaml file for the setup

GitOps is a special type of DevOps that focuses on deploying your applications. We look look at 5 GitOps tools you need to know.

A facinating and helpful web story on how to create a home lab dashboard using a Raspberry Pi Wayland Kiosk configuration!

A quick story on how to run Windows Server 2025 on Proxmox VE Server and the steps you need to take for installing VirtIO drivers, QEMU agent, etc

Check out why the Terramaster F4-424 Max may be the best home lab NAS right now in 2024 with 12 thread processor, 2 10 gig ports and lots of features

Learn about my experiences running the Intel Core Ultra 5 125H processor in a mini PC with VMware ESXi installed, including how the CPU is identified and power consumption which were both odd.

The Beelink SEi14 has many good hardware features, including the Intel Core Ultra 5 processor with 18 threads and an Intel 2.5 GbE network adapter so you can run VMware Esxi

Learn about 5 really great Kubernetes alternatives that will remove a lot of complexity that Kubernetes introduces with container orchestration.

Configure Ubuntu DNS and which files to use to setup DNS server IP addresses with netplan and systemd-resolved

Discover a free Proxmox home lab e-book download that steps you through the most important parts of running Proxmox in your home lab environment.