Tag: homelab

Stop guessing whose request is clogging your 4K library. Jellyseerr tags + Sonarr/Radarr + Maintainerr = real per-user quota control that actually holds up.

Sonarr handles TV. Radarr handles movies. But who handles comics and adult content? Meet Mylar3 and Whisparr — the *arr apps nobody talks about, until now.

Expose Docker's Unix socket over TCP so remote tools and dashboards can connect — daemon.json config for Linux and Windows.

Alpine gives you a shell and apk; Distroless gives you nothing but the app. Compare attack surface, image size, and multi-stage build complexity.

Appwrite is an open-source Firebase alternative you can self-host — databases, auth, storage, and functions without vendor lock-in.

Bcachefs is in Linux mainline, but drama around its lead dev hasn't stopped. Stability verdict, performance data, and a straight answer on home lab use.

The docker compose commands you actually use daily — up, down, logs, exec, pull, and the flags that make them way more useful.

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

The -v and --mount flags for Docker volumes explained — bind mounts vs named volumes, read-only, propagation, and tmpfs options.

COPY and ADD look similar but ADD auto-extracts tarballs and fetches URLs — know when each is appropriate and why COPY is usually better.

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

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