Docker logs are definitely one of the first places I look when troubleshooting issues with containers. It is often where you will find the root cause of the issue that…

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I think we are seeing a paradigm shift in hardware landscape with the surging price of consumer RAM. This is not only going to affect the obvious, RAM upgrades, but…

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Each time I mention Watchtower for container updates, I generally have comments that Watchtower is a very stale project. This is definitely true as it hasn’t had any updates in…

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When you start out in the home lab managing containers, this always starts out fairly simple when you have one or two containers. You might even introduce a reverse proxy…

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GPUs are definitely no longer just for gamers or crypto miners. They are also now the essential hardware when it comes to AI, media encoding, and things like machine learning.…

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Recently, you may have seen some automation I have been doing with AI to self-heal and correct things in the home lab. One of those workflows I have been using…

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With most running Proxmox or leaning towards running Proxmox in the home lab for the foreseeable future, running Docker containers on top of a Proxmox environment is a given. Proxmox…

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Docker Desktop is a great tool to run containers locally. It also provides a great interface to work with your containers and many features. While we may choose to run…

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There are a lot of great ways to run Kubernetes in your home lab. I have covered many of these from running k3s to running a Minikube cluster on Ubuntu…

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If you are starting to run containers in 2025 in the home lab or production environments, the operating system you choose is the foundation that starts it all. Since containers…

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One of the things that gets “hard” when you start caring about the security of your Docker containers is managing your secrets. It is a tricky bit that you need…

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I have been using Nginx Proxy Manager (NPM) for quite some time now, a few years from what I remember. It is a great solution and one that I point many to who are just starting out with their Docker learning journey and want to have a quick and easy way to stand up proper …

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I have been big into documenting my home lab and finding tools that are great for creating documentation for my DevOps processes in the lab and in production. This has led me down a rabbit hole of trying all sorts of documentation tools and tools that can help visualize my docker compose code. If you …

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Portainer has long been on the lists of best Docker tools that you can use in the home lab and in production environments. REcently, they have announced the new Portainer 2.33 LTS version has been released. It is folding in many of the new features contained in the recent STS builds and bringing these into …

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