Host S3 Compatible Storage on your Synology NAS with MinIO!
Is object storage something that you can only make use of to store backups and other files as needed when you use cloud storage? No, actually it isn’t. You can…
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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.
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 that those…
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 will see come up…
Gitea Install with Drone CI CD Server Self-Hosted Git
I have been using GitLab for ages now, and I am very familiar with it. However, one thing I haven’t been happy about with GitLab is the solution’s performance. It…
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 testing are GlusterFS…
Broadcom Bringing back VMware vSphere Standard and Enterprise Plus!
Wow, it has been a wild ride with VMware by Broadcom over the 2024 year with so many sweeping changes in portfolio simplification and licensing changes. However, I don’t have…
5 Docker Update Image Tools to Keep Images Up to Date
If you are running Docker containers in your environment, you are probably interested in knowing how to keep lifecycle management of your container images and docker update image tasks. There…
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 have space accumulated…
Netdata Docker Monitoring for Home Lab
I have been playing around with a lot of Docker monitoring solutions to monitor my critical Docker containers. There are many great open source solutions you can use for Docker…
Configuring Kubernetes High Availability with Microk8s
If you are looking for an easy way to have a Kubernetes High Availability cluster for your API server and control plane, Microk8s makes this very easy with the deploy…
