I run 14+ Docker containers across my homelab. Traefik, Authentik, Pi-hole, CrowdSec, Plex, Home Assistant — the usual suspects. Renovate keeps the images up to date automatically, which is great, ...

If you’ve ever looked at AI code review tools like CodeRabbit or Codacy, you’ve probably noticed a pattern: GitHub and GitLab get all the love. If you’re running Gitea in your homelab, you’re mostl...

I’ve been spending a lot of time thinking about how I want to automate my homelab — and how to do it in a way that’s safe, repeatable, and doesn’t turn into “oops, the bot changed my network.” I’v...

If you’ve been following along, you know I’ve been running Intel vPro/AMT on my Minisforum MS-01 devices. In a previous post, I covered enabling Intel vPro on the MS-01 and mentioned using MeshComm...

Introduction Welcome to this guide where I walk you through automating the backend infrastructure necessary for storing your Terraform state files in AWS. This setup costs just a few cents a month...

TrueNAS SCALE (Electric Eel) + This post is a continuation inspired by questions I’ve received about using Traefik on TrueNAS SCALE, which is still not directly supported in TrueNAS “Applications”...

I’ve recently started testing Netdata, a real-time performance monitoring and diagnostics tool for systems and applications. So far, I’m impressed with its comprehensive metrics collection and intu...

Today, I’m going to show you how to install Ansible on a Mac, and prepare a target Ubuntu server with SSH authentication, which will make using Ansible easier in the future. There are many ways to ...

TrueNAS SCALE 24.10 (Electric Eel) If you’re like me, you want to start using Docker Compose right away on the new release of TrueNAS SCALE 24.10 (Electric Eel). The main reason is that I already ...

Have you recently moved from a PC to a Mac and noticed that when using MS Teams, things are just a bit different? Well, some of this can be expected, of course. However, one thing that was driving ...