Setting up a personal Home Lab is not a task for lazy people: it incurrs a big cost of maintenance and issues arise even though we might use the best IT-Infrastructure practices… but we can always learn a lot out of it and make it also super fun. In this post I would like to share my journey and share some tips and tricks and issues I bumped into. Let’s jump in!
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An overview of my current homelab architecture, focusing on a transition from complex orchestration to a simplified Docker Compose-based setup.
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A toolkit for building secure, portable and lean operating systems for containers
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