Brandon Lee

Brandon Lee is the Senior Writer, Engineer and owner at Virtualizationhowto.com, and a 7-time VMware vExpert, with over two decades of experience in Information Technology. Having worked for numerous Fortune 500 companies as well as in various industries, He has extensive experience in various IT segments and is a strong advocate for open source technologies. Brandon holds many industry certifications, loves the outdoors and spending time with family. Also, he goes through the effort of testing and troubleshooting issues, so you don't have to.

home lab

Brandon LeeJuly 22, 2025
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Home Assistant Docker Compose Design Decisions: Networking, Storage, Backups

If you have been wanting to get into Home Assistant, it is a growing ecosystem that is fun and exciting. And, if you already have a home lab environment, which most of the readers here do, you already likely have…
home lab

Brandon LeeJuly 21, 2025
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Automate Your Home Lab with n8n Workflow Automation and AI

If you have not heard about a tool called N8N, please read this blog post. This is a phenomenal tool that really opens a lot of possibilities for doing things with AI agents and other workflows that would be much…
home lab

Brandon LeeJuly 18, 2025
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15 Weekend-Ready Ansible Playbooks for Your Home Lab

I’ve spent countless weekends automating every corner of my home lab, and nothing feels better than kicking back on Monday morning knowing that routine tasks and projects in the home lab ran themselves over the weekend. In this post, I’m…
Containers

Brandon LeeJuly 17, 2025
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Docker Networking Tutorial: Bridge vs. Macvlan vs. Overlay for Home Labs

Everyone starts out using the default bridge network in a Docker container environment. And, if you are running standalone Docker hosts there is likely nothing wrong with using this network type because it just works. However, like any tool, knowing…
home lab

Brandon LeeJuly 16, 2025
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Run Your Home Lab with Infrastructure as Code Like a Boss

There has never been a better time to get into coding things, especially infrastructure as code. There are so many powerful AI tools available now so the barrier to entry for writing code has never been lower. I have always…
DevOps

Brandon LeeJuly 15, 2025
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Amazon Kiro AI IDE Released in Preview Download it Now!

I have been super excited and using AI-enhanced coding tools for the last few months now. So, I am on the lookout for new tools and solutions. In case you haven’t heard, has just released Kiro AI IDE (now in…
Automation

Brandon LeeJuly 14, 2025
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Ansible Semaphore UI: My New Go-To Infrastructure Automation Tool

A couple of years ago now, I wrote about Ansible Semaphore which brings an awesome UI to Ansible and it is a MUCH simpler tool to get up and running and use than something like Ansible AWX. However, since I…
Proxmox

Brandon LeeJuly 11, 2025
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High-Availability (HA) Proxmox Clusters: Do’s & Don’ts

One of the most powerful features of running a virtualization cluster is being able to have high availability features that are built into the solution. High availability features allow you to run virtual machines in a way that makes them…
Proxmox

Brandon LeeJuly 10, 2025
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Proxmox Networking Best Practices for Home Labs and Downloadable Cheat Sheet!

One of the most important parts of any virtualization solution is the networking. It doesn’t matter how awesome your storage is or how many capabilities your hypervisor has if you can’t control the flow of the bits. Proxmox is built…
Containers

Brandon LeeJuly 9, 2025
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Docker Security Tips for Container Hosts & Ansible Playbook

Running containers in your lab or production environment is one of the best things you can do, not only for learning, but running workloads efficiently. Over the last couple of years, I have developed a security checklist that I apply…