Longhorn vs Rook-Ceph
Two ways to give your K8s cluster persistent block storage — Longhorn for simplicity, Rook-Ceph for scale. Real homelab tradeoffs, not vendor marketing slides.
Tag: self-hosting
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Velero: K8s Backup and DR
Your cluster will fail. Velero captures everything — manifests, CRDs, persistent volumes — and lets you replay it on a fresh cluster. Setup, gotchas, real DR plans.
Claude Code in a Homelab Workflow
Claude Code puts an agentic AI assistant in your terminal for real homelab work — compose files, bash, Ansible, systemd. The honest take on cost and data.
cert-manager: ACME at Scale
cert-manager makes Let's Encrypt automatic on Kubernetes — once. Then you scale, hit DNS-01 quirks, wildcard limits, and rate-limit walls. Here's the full survival guide.
Rootless Docker: Tips, Gotchas & Fixes
Rootless Docker tuning deep-dive: network drivers, env vars, port drivers, cgroup delegation, and real troubleshooting — anchored to Docker Engine 29.x.
Dead Container Took Down Prod
A real postmortem: how a forgotten survey-tool container, an uncapped Docker log driver, and rootless networking combined to kill prod for a Monday morning.
Mikrotik RouterOS for Home Lab
Mikrotik routers cost $50, run a real OS, and humiliate prosumer gear. RouterOS basics, VLANs, firewalling, and why your homelab probably needs one of these.
pfSense vs OPNsense in 2026
Two FreeBSD firewall distros, one bitter fork. pfSense vs OPNsense in 2026 — which one to pick for your home lab, and why the licensing drama still matters.
Zeek for Home Lab Forensics
Zeek (formerly Bro) turns network traffic into structured logs you can actually query. The IDS that doesn't shout — it documents. Setup and use in a home lab.
Neo4j vs ArangoDB: Graph DB Showdown
Neo4j is the household graph DB with Cypher. ArangoDB is multi-model with AQL and free clustering. Here's which one fits your homelab graph use case.
ModSecurity vs Coraza WAF
ModSecurity 3 is end-of-life and Coraza is the open-source successor — Go-native, faster, and friendlier. Here's the migration story and what actually changes.
Photon vs ESPHome: ESP Firmware Compared
Particle Photon 2 vs ESPHome for ESP32 projects: cloud lock-in, OTA updates, Home Assistant integration, and which firmware wins for self-hosters long-term.