Tag: devops

Authelia is a bouncer. Authentik is the whole security desk. Pick the right self-hosted SSO for your home lab — with working configs, gotchas, and a migration path.

OpenTelemetry plus the Grafana LGTM stack gives you Datadog-class traces, metrics, and logs for $0/month. Deploy an OTel Collector and instrument your app fast.

K3s, K0s, and MicroK8s all slim down Kubernetes for home labs and edge — but they make very different tradeoffs. Here's how to pick the right one without losing a weekend.

Per-container control over Docker image updates with labels. Auto-update or notify via Discord, Slack, ntfy—no sidecar needed.

You've been compromised. Now what? A practical incident response playbook for self-hosters who didn't think they'd need one until right now.

rsync is not a backup. Restic, Borg, and Kopia do deduplication, encryption, and incremental snapshots properly. Here's which one fits your home lab and why.

A Software Bill of Materials tells you exactly what's in your software. Syft generates one, Grype scans it for CVEs. Together they're your supply chain paper trail.

Jenkins needs a server. GitHub Actions needs GitHub. If you're self-hosting your Git and want CI that doesn't weigh more than the code it's testing, Drone CI and its community fork Woodpecker CI are worth knowing about. One changed its license. The other exists because of that decision.

Pulling unscanned images onto your server is a gamble. Trivy finds the CVEs. Cosign proves the image hasn't been swapped out. Here's how to add both to your workflow.

You want to self-host your git. Noble. Responsible, even. But now you're staring down three options and a Reddit thread that's somehow both 4 years old and still being argued about. Gitea, Forgejo, GitLab CE — let's cut through the noise and figure out which one won't ruin your weekend.

ELK does everything and wants all your memory. Loki does logging the Prometheus way — label indexes, not content — and runs on a fraction of the resources. Here's the honest comparison.

Your database password is in 14 different `.env` files across three repos, one of which is public on GitHub. Somewhere out there, a bot is already trying it. It's time to fix the secrets sprawl problem — and pick the right tool to do it without spending three weeks on setup.