Grafana and Prometheus are a powerful monitoring solution.It allows you to visualize, query, and alert metrics no matter where they are stored.Today, we’ll install and configure Prometheus and Graf...

After deciding to upgrade my “old” 24 PoE switch to a new 48 port PoE switch with 4 SFP+ ports, I decided to check to see if my old house with old Cat5e network wiring will work at 10 gigabit speed...

If I could start my HomeLab all over, what would I choose? Would I choose the same servers, rack, networking, gateway, switch, firewall, my pc conversion, and even my disk shelf NAS? Did I make a...

It’s here. The #100DaysOfHomeLab challenge! This challenge is meant to accelerate your knowledge in servers, networking, infrastructure, automation, storage, containerization, orchestration, virtu...

Jekyll is a static site generator that transforms your plain text into beautiful static web sites and blogs.It can be use for a documentation site, a blog, an event site, or really any web site you...

I think I found the perfect GitOps and DevOps toolkit with FluxCD and Kubernetes.Flux is an open source GitOps solution that helps your deploy app and infrastructure with automation.It can monitor ...

Pterodactyl is a free an open source dedicated game server.It comes with both a panel to configure and deploy your game servers as well as game server nodes to run your games.It runs games in Docke...

Tdarr is a distributed transcoding system that runs on on Windows, Mac, Linux, Arm, Docker, and even Unraid.It uses a server with one or more nodes to transcode videos into any format you like.Toda...

Setting up k3s is hard.That’s why we made it easy.Today we’ll set up a High Availability K3s cluster using etcd, MetalLB, kube-vip, and Ansible.We’ll automate the entire process giving you an easy,...

Using Cloud Images and Cloud Init with Proxmox is easy, fast, efficient, and fun! Cloud Images are small images that are certified cloud ready that have Cloud Init preinstalled and ready to accept...