Step-by-step guide to deploying HAProxy with Docker Compose for TCP/HTTP load balancing in your homelab — SSL termination, health checks, stats monitoring, and backend failover with real configuration files.
Learn how Docker Compose profiles let you start only the services you need — enable monitoring, disable dev tools in production, and keep a single docker-compose.yml for your entire homelab stack.
Master Docker container DNS for your homelab — configure custom resolvers like Pi-hole, enable internal service discovery with Docker Compose network aliases, set global DNS via daemon.json, and troubleshoot container DNS failures step by step.
Start a private PostgreSQL 16 instance, verify persistence, separate application roles, and follow the tested backup and restore lab.
Migrate Docker containers between homelab hosts with minimal downtime. Covers volume backup and restore, image export/import, Compose stack portability, and rsync-based data transfer strategies.
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.
Complete guide to deploying n8n with Docker Compose in your homelab — PostgreSQL backend, persistent workflows, Traefik SSL, security hardening, and practical workflow automation examples.
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.
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.
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.