Orchestration

Docker Compose Profiles — Selective Service Management for Homelab

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.

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.