containers
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home lab
How to Downsize your Home Lab
Running your own home lab, where you manage your own server, can be fun and exciting. These can be used for learning, experimenting, or managing personal data and services; your own home lab can help you accomplish all of these.…
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Containers
Run Windows Desktop inside a Docker Container with Dockur
I learned about an exciting project via an email from the developer. I would like to share a new project that allows you to run Windows inside a Docker container without jumping through a lot of hoops. What’s more, you…
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Containers
10 Best Docker Containers for Security in 2024
Many are embracing running containers as opposed to running a virtual machines instance for workloads. There are so many great Docker containers users can look at for many different use cases and applications. However, there are also excellent container security…
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Storage
Ceph Storage Best Practices for Ultimate Performance in Proxmox VE
Ceph is a scalable storage solution that is free and open-source. It is a great storage solution when integrated within Proxmox Virtual Environment (VE) clusters that provides reliable and scalable storage for virtual machines, containers, etc. In this post, we will look at…
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Containers
Why 2024 is the Real Year of Container vs VM
Wow, who could have foretold what was in store for 2024 with all the changes and shocking tectonic shifts that have happened over the course of the last few months. We have certainly had several good discussions and blog posts…
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DevOps
Best Open-Source DevOps Monitoring Tools in 2024
This blog post looks at the best open-source monitoring tools in DevOps in 2024 for continuous monitoring tools, many of which you can run in Docker on-premises in prod or your home lab. Table of contentsPrometheusGrafanaNagios CoreInfluxDBTelegrafGraylogIcingaCollectdSensuNetdataLibreNMSOpenNMSUptime KumaVictoriaMetricsThanosLokiJaegerCadvisorZipkinOpenTelemetryZabbixNew RelicELK StackWrapping…
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Containers
Kasm Workspaces Install: 5 Steps to Run your Linux Desktop inside a Docker container
If you are looking for one of the slickest and coolest solutions for streaming applications and desktops in your home lab or production, I want to introduce you to Kasm. It is a solution that will totally change how you…
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Containers
ECS Anywhere: Run AWS Containers on your Home Server On-premises!
So many services are either “cloud only” or “only on-premises” technologies. However, what if you wanted a blend of both running in your home lab or in production when it comes to running your containers? If you haven’t heard about…
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Kubernetes
Best Linux Distro in 2024 for Kubernetes
Most are now running containerized environments with either Docker or Kubernetes. One of the challenges with self-hosted Kubernetes is managing and maintaining the underlying Linux operating system for the Linux kernel. Let’s look at the best Linux distro 2024 edition…
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Linux
Fedora Silverblue Linux: Install Immutable Desktop Operating System
When it comes to Linux desktop operating systems, there is one that is quite interesting, Fedora Silverblue. It provides many great features, including that it is an “immutable os.” It is a variant of the Fedora Linux distribution that protects…
