Tag: devops

Trivy, Grype, and Docker Scout go head-to-head on speed, CVE coverage, CI integration, and cost. Pick the right scanner for your home lab or pipeline.

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.

Twenty powerful bash one-liners every sysadmin should know, file ops, process hunting, networking, text processing, disk analysis

Compile software on Raspberry Pi or cheap VPS with 512MB, 2GB RAM. Swap, parallel jobs, ccache, and swappiness tuning make it work.

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.

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.

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.

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.