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Proxmox
New Proxmox Datacenter Manager Released Download and Install
In case you haven’t heard, Proxmox has released a new Proxmox DataCenter Manager project that is set to help admins have a centralized view of all their individual Proxmox VE server nodes and Proxmox clusters. You can also do basic…
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home lab
Home Labs are changing in 2025
Why do I say this? Well, I am like everyone and just monitoring and reading and hearing what others are talking about. There seem to be several things that many will be changing in their labs in 2025 and I…
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home lab
Docker Minecraft Server Home Lab Project
Often learning is more fun when you have something “fun” to learn for. If you are like me, you may enjoy spinning up new projects to learn various Docker skills and disciplines. However, having a home lab project that is…
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Containers
Pihole Docker Swarm Configuration with Nginx Proxy Manager
As you guys know, I have been a huge proponent of Docker Swarm. I think it is still a very viable option as a middle ground between standalone Docker hosts and Kubernetes when you need more availability than a single…
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DevOps
5 GitOps Tools that you need to know!
I have been getting hugely into GitOps in the home lab lately and carrying those skillings into production environments. GitOps is a methodology that focuses on deployments being sourced from a git repo. Using GitOps you can encapsulate everything in…
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DevOps
10 Best DevOps Tools Going Into 2025!
With 2025 sunsetting in a hurry, if you are like me you are thinking about the skills and disciplines you want to gain mastery over. DevOps is definitely an area that has tremendous demand with modern cloud infrastructure and even…
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Software Defined Storage
Ceph Dashboard Install and Configuration for Microceph
If you are running Microceph, can you run the Ceph Dashboard as you can in full-blown Ceph? Yes you can! The process to spin this up is fairly straightforward with a few commands to run that will allow you to…
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home lab
Home Lab Tour 2024: Hardware, Software, Containers and More!
Well, what a year it has been! Wow, I can’t believe how many changes we have seen this year and bumps in the road along the way. But, here we are, at the end of 2024. I want to take…
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Kubernetes
FluxCD How to Modify Kustomize Image Tag
One of the coolest things that you can do with FluxCD and using Flux for GitOps is modifying your Kustomize image tag so that you can keep your pods updated with the latest releases. Let’s take a look at FluxCD…
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Kubernetes
CRICTL Kubernetes Command Line Tool for Troubleshooting
CRICTL is not a command that you may have heard about when working with Kubernetes, but it is a really great utility to troubleshoot your Kubernetes cluster at the container runtime level. It provides a direct line of sight to…
