Got Some Of These Cisco Phones For The House - A DevOps Guide to Homelab VoIP Setup Introduction Finding retired enterprise Cisco IP phones on eBay or surplus sales is a rite of passage for homel...

This Is The Best Blog Post I’ve Ever Read About Setting Up Automation In A Homelab 1. Introduction Every homelab engineer knows the pain: you’ve deployed dozens of Docker containers for services ...

Finally Upgraded My Homelab Introduction For years, my homelab was powered by a humble 4-node Raspberry Pi cluster – an excellent platform for learning Kubernetes and Terraform fundamentals, but ...

Stop Using GitHub - GitHub Is No Longer Independent At Microsoft After CEO Resignation Introduction When Microsoft acquired GitHub in 2018, the developer community expressed cautious optimism. Pr...

Shout Out To An Old Post In Here With One Reply That Saved Me This Weekend: A DevOps Survival Story 1. Introduction It’s 1:15 AM on a Saturday night. Your maintenance window just began. You’re mi...

Using SSDs Only For Homelab Or Sell: A DevOps Storage Dilemma Explored Introduction The homelab community faces a recurring infrastructure paradox: when enterprise-grade hardware becomes availabl...

Dear Penthouse Forum I Can’t Believe It Finally Happened To Me: A DevOps Horror Story and Lessons Learned 1. Introduction The Reddit post that inspired this article reads like every infrastructur...

15 Years To Figure Out We Are A Hybrid Environment Introduction The post title isn’t hyperbole - it’s a real-world confession from an overwhelmed sysadmin. After 15 years of “traditional” AD mana...

From HOA Rack To My Own Micro Data Center: How I Built An ISP And Learned Mikrotik Along The Way Introduction When faced with the choice between 12 Mbps wireless for $80/month or 3 Mbps DSL for $...

Almost Done With My Build: The Art of Homelab Infrastructure Management Introduction The phrase “almost done with my build” resonates deeply with every system administrator and DevOps engineer wh...