Grafana Loki — Centralized Docker Logging for Your Homelab
Collect, analyze, and alert on Docker container logs with Grafana Loki and Grafana Alloy. A complete centralized logging stack for your homelab with real Compose configs and dashboards.
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Proxmox GitOps — Terraform IaC for LXC and VM Automation
Automate Proxmox LXC and VM provisioning using Terraform or OpenTofu with a GitOps pipeline — declarative infrastructure, remote state, and CI/CD from Git pushes.
n8n Docker Deployment — Self-Hosted Workflow Automation Guide
Complete guide to deploying n8n with Docker Compose in your homelab — PostgreSQL backend, persistent workflows, Traefik SSL, security hardening, and practical workflow automation examples.
Docker Swarm Homelab — Single-Node Orchestration with Compose to Swarm
Deploy Docker Swarm in single-node mode for orchestration in your homelab — initialize the cluster, convert Compose files to stacks, deploy Portainer and Traefik, and manage persistent storage with NFS.
Immich Docker Deployment — Self-Hosted Google Photos Alternative
Deploy Immich as a self-hosted Google Photos alternative with Docker Compose — PostgreSQL, Redis, hardware-accelerated transcoding, ML-based search, and Traefik reverse proxy for secure remote access.
nftables Host Firewall for a Homelab — Add Rules Without Flushing Docker
Create and verify a separate nftables host-input policy, preserve service-owned tables, and understand why Docker published ports need forwarding rules.
Ansible for a Homelab — Inventory, First Playbook, and Safe Expansion
A staged Ansible introduction with a complete file-management example, explicit target selection, check-mode limits, secrets guidance and rollback.
Prometheus and Grafana — Homelab Monitoring Stack with Docker Compose
A practical guide to deploying a full Prometheus and Grafana monitoring stack in your homelab with Docker Compose — collect CPU, RAM, disk, network, and Docker container metrics from every host, visualize with pre-built dashboards, and get alerts when things go wrong.
MikroTik RouterOS 7 — Hardening and Best Practices Guide
Practical RouterOS 7 best practices for homelab and small-business deployments — security hardening, firewall design, VLAN segmentation, FastTrack performance tuning, DoH configuration, and backup automation with real commands.
Docker Healthchecks — Service Readiness and Dependencies in Compose
A practical guide to Docker healthchecks in Compose — define checks with test, interval, timeout, and start_period, use depends_on condition: service_healthy for ordered startup, and debug health state with docker inspect.