Tag: homelab

Add load balancing and failover to your Docker setup using Swarm, nginx, HAProxy, and Keepalived, high availability without Kubernetes.

Access services on the host machine from inside a Docker container using host-gateway or host.docker.internal, no hardcoded IPs.

Containers share the kernel; VMs have their own. Understand the isolation trade-offs, overhead differences, and when to use which.

Run multiple commands in one docker exec call by piping a heredoc to the container shell, chain dependent steps and skip repeated container roundtrips.

Shell globbing breaks inside docker exec because of how args are parsed, here's how to pass wildcards and asterisks correctly.

Automate a full WordPress stack deployment, Docker, nginx, and MySQL, using Ansible playbooks instead of clicking through wizards.

Cloudflare Tunnels expose local services to the internet without open ports, secure setup with zero-trust access controls.

Squeeze more out of Proxmox VE, CPU pinning, memory ballooning, IO threads, virtio drivers, and storage tuning for faster VMs.

Automate Docker container deployment with shell scripts, cron, and Ansible, stop SSHing in and restarting things by hand.

Logs, metrics, and traces for Docker containers, Prometheus, Loki, Grafana, and OpenTelemetry to know what's happening inside your stack.

Docker needs a daemon; Podman doesn't. Compare architecture, rootless support, Compose compatibility, and which one belongs in your workflow.

Ollama makes running local LLMs dead simple, pull a model, start the server, and get a private ChatGPT running on your own hardware.