home lab
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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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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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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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Top 5 Home Lab Projects I have Tackled in 2024
As I look back on 2024, when it comes to my learning and labbing adventures, it has been quite a fruitful year along those lines. I really have enjoyed the growing pains and decision making for the home lab that…
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Split Horizon DNS: How I Resolve a Subset of DNS Records locally
One of the core aspects of any network, whether it be your home lab network or an enterprise network is DNS. It’s always DNS right? DNS has been described as the phone book of the Internet and of computer networks…
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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 monitoring, including cAdvisor and Node Exporter which I have written…
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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 monitoring screens showing different statistics in the home lab. As it turns out, Raspberry…
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NetBox Docker Compose Install Example
The NetBox solution is a great tool that can allow you to document and have a single source of truth for your network and infrastructure. Network and infrastructure engineers can use it as the starting point for driving automation and…
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Share your Home Lab 2024 and Win a $799 Mini PC
In an effort to motivate ones to share their home labs with the community, I will be giving away a Beelink SEi14 Mini PC to a random winner who shares pics and specs of their home lab. Let me share…
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Enable CPU C States for Massive Power Savings for your Home Server
I have been deep-diving lately into helpful suggestions, configurations, and settings that help to lower the power bill in a home lab or edge environment with server hardware or even mini PCs running as servers. I want to shed light…
