Tag: homelab

Build one Grafana dashboard that adapts to any host or data source using variables — query, custom, constant, and interval types with real examples.

2026 home lab hardware picks: N100/N200 mini PCs, used rack servers, NAS options, UPS, and switches — plus the power-draw math you need to justify the build.

Self-host Nextcloud in Docker with persistent storage and a reverse proxy — your own Google Drive without the Google.

Move Docker images between hosts without a registry using docker save and docker load — air-gapped deployments made simple.

Wire up QSV, VAAPI, or NVENC in Immich so face recognition and thumbnails run on the GPU, not your CPU. Step-by-step for Intel, AMD, and Nvidia hardware.

Get Caddy running as a reverse proxy in Docker — automatic HTTPS, Caddyfile config, and Docker Compose setup in under 10 minutes.

The official, no-nonsense way to install Docker Engine on Ubuntu and Debian — repository setup, key import, and one command to verify it works.

Generate code documentation with Doxygen without installing it — run it from a Docker container and get HTML docs from any codebase.

LazyLibrarian vs Readarr for ebook and audiobook automation — honest comparison of features, maturity, and community support, with real Docker Compose configs.

Harden your home lab against real threats — SSH hardening, fail2ban, network segmentation, backups, and preparing for when things go wrong.

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

Pixtral, Qwen3-VL, and Gemma 4 compared for local multimodal use in 2026. LLaVA is dead; here's what to run in Ollama for OCR, screenshots, and vision tasks.