Articles
Best Kubernetes Distributions for Home Lab Enthusiasts in 2025
Kubernetes is THE tool to learn for running containers. You can use it in the home lab, and certainly in production and cloud environments. If you …
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Optimize SSD and NVMe Storage for Virtualization in Your Home Lab
When building out your home lab, the storage layer is arguably one of the most important. Choosing the right storage solution is key to having a pl…
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Automating Your Home Lab with Ansible, Terraform, and CI/CD Pipelines
There has never been a better time to automate your home lab with tools like Ansible, Terraform, and CI/CD pipelines. With the AI tools and help we…
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VMware
VMware Tools Vulnerability VMSA-2025-0005: What You Need to Know
In case you didn’t know, VMware released a new VMware security advisory noted in the VMSA-2025-0005 bulletin and notes the flaw: CVE-2025-22230. Th…
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Minisforum BD790i X3D Motherboard Review with AMD 7945HX3D and PCIe Gen 5
Minisforum sent over another very powerful motherboard they have just come out with, the Minisforum BD790i X3D. This board is really geared towards…
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Articles
TerraMaster F4-424 Max NAS Review for Home Lab
In my opinion, NAS devices are getting better and better with more powerful hardware and better software on top of them. I recently reviewed the Te…
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Configure TerraMaster Hyper Cache NAS SSD Caching
In working with the TerraMaster F4-424 Max, one of the features that I wanted to play around with was the SSD cache on this hybrid NAS. I installed…
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Windows Server
New OSConfig PowerShell Security Tool in Windows Server 2025
In looking at Windows Server 2025 and security configuration settings, there is a new tool that Microsoft has introduced called OSConfig . In cas…
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Articles
RAIDZ Calculator to find ZFS Capacity and Cost
Manually calculating your ZFS RAID storage capacity and cost can be something that you want to do if you are building out ZFS implementation. You m…
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