Tag: homelab

Automate Docker container deployment with shell scripts, cron, and Ansible, stop SSHing in and restarting things by hand.

Logs, metrics, and traces for Docker containers, Prometheus, Loki, Grafana, and OpenTelemetry to know what's happening inside your stack.

Docker needs a daemon; Podman doesn't. Compare architecture, rootless support, Compose compatibility, and which one belongs in your workflow.

Ollama makes local LLMs easy to start. The only decision that matters is whether the model fits your VRAM. Compose file, real sizes, and the gotchas.

LocalAI serves chat, embeddings, images and audio behind one OpenAI-compatible endpoint. Auth is deny-by-default now, and old compose files pull dead models.

Zabbix is enterprise-grade monitoring that you can self-host, agents, templates, triggers, and dashboards for your entire home lab.

LXC/LXD runs full Linux environments in lightweight containers, faster to spin up than VMs and perfect for home lab service isolation.

Talos OS is an immutable, API-driven OS designed purely for running Kubernetes, no SSH, no package manager, pure GitOps.

Move beyond single containers, Docker Compose lets you define and run multi-service apps with one YAML file and one command.

Disaster recovery for your Linux home lab, tiered backups, a restic script that actually runs, restore drills, and the gotchas that bite at 2 AM.

Wiki.js is a gorgeous self-hosted wiki with Markdown, WYSIWYG, and Git sync, Docker Compose setup with PostgreSQL backend.

NocoDB wraps any SQL database in a spreadsheet UI, self-host an Airtable alternative on top of MySQL, PostgreSQL, or SQLite with Docker.