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Gitea vs GitLab: Which one for Home Lab?
If you are looking for a self-hosted git solution that will allow you to host your own git repositories, there are probably two solutions that you …
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GMKtec NUCBOX M7 Pro Review: Great for Gaming and Home Lab
GMKtec graciously sent over a NUCBOX M7 Pro unit for me to take a look at, and needless to say, the specs for this little mini PC are impressive in…
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Ceph Backup: Don’t Lose Your HCI Data
This is more a public service announcement rather than a technical blog, but we will take a high-level look at a warning that I want to make sure t…
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Proxmox Agentless Backups with NAKIVO Backup & Replication v11
NAKIVO is definitely a backup solution that I have been watching and working with in the home lab and in production now for a few years. They have …
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Raspberry Pi Wayland Kiosk for Home Lab Dashboard
In looking for upgrades to my home lab, one of the things that I wanted to implement was a kiosk type dashboard that rotated between different moni…
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Try Microceph for an Easy Ceph Install
One of the software-defined storage solutions gaining popularity in the enterprise and home lab community is Ceph. Ceph is a powerful storage solut…
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Docker Swarm is Awesome with Portainer
I have been revisiting how I have been running containers in my home lab. While Kubernetes is awesome, and I continue to run various deployments of…
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Commvault Cloud Rewind Restores Cloud Data AND Infrastructure
If you are like me, the news of ransomware attacks across the world seem to be on the increase with news headlines breaking it seems like almost ev…
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GlusterFS vs Ceph: Two Different Storage Solutions with Pros and Cons
I have been trying out various storage solutions in my home lab environment over the past couple of months or so. Two that I have been extensively …
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Docker Prune Automating Cleanup Across Multiple Container Hosts
If you run many Docker hosts or multiple hosts in a Swarm cluster, if you are updating and respinning your containers (and you should be), you will…
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10 Best Docker Container Stacks I am using in 2024
I have been using tons of Docker stacks this year and moving into 2025, that doesn’t look to be slowing down for me. I have several standalone Dock…
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