A practical guide to running automated vulnerability scanning for Docker containers in your homelab — install Trivy, scan images for CVEs and secrets, set up systemd timers for weekly scans, and integrate with dashboards for actionable security reports.
Replace cron with systemd timer units for reliable, observable homelab task scheduling — persistent schedules, real journald logging, monotonic intervals, and hardened service units with practical backup, maintenance, and healthcheck examples.
Complete guide to automating encrypted Docker volume backups with restic — local snapshots with deduplication, S3-compatible offsite storage, cron scheduling, retention policies, and disaster recovery for homelab containers.
Deploy Ollama and Open WebUI on your homelab hardware for private, self-hosted AI inference. Covers Docker Compose setup, GPU acceleration, model management, remote access, and production hardening tips.
Create reusable Proxmox VM templates with cloud-init to deploy Ubuntu and Debian VMs in under 60 seconds. Covers image preparation, cloud-init user/SSH/package config, template creation, and CLI cloning.
Practical Ansible homelab automation guide — playbook structure, Docker container deployment with community.docker, ansible-vault secrets, Jinja2 templates, Git workflow, and full project template.
Keeping Docker containers updated is the kind of chore you automate once and forget about — until a container silently runs a four-month-old image with five CVEs because you forgot to docker compose pull && up -d. Watchtower solves this. It watches your running containers, checks for new images, and restarts them with the latest tag — all on a cron schedule. But a naive “update everything” setup will break your database container and nuke your uptime. ...