Tag: homelab

Wazuh: Open Source SIEM for Your Home Lab

Wazuh gives you SIEM, HIDS, FIM, and threat detection in one stack. Here's how to deploy it in your home lab with Docker and actually use it.

SBCs in 2026: Homelab on a Budget

DRAM prices are killing the hobbyist SBC market, but there are still great options. Here's what's worth buying in 2026 for a sub-$200 homelab setup.

LUKS Full Disk Encryption on Linux

LUKS encrypts your drives so a stolen server is just expensive recycling. Here's how to set it up, manage keys, and unlock headless boxes remotely.

Rootless Docker: Run Without Root

Run Docker containers without root privileges — here's the security difference, the install steps, and the gotchas nobody tells you about.

Linux Privilege Escalation: The Defensive Playbook

Attackers love finding ways to go from www-data to root. Here's how they do it, and more importantly, how you harden your Linux boxes to stop them.

Three ways to upload ISOs to Proxmox

Three ways to upload an ISO to Proxmox — web UI, wget direct download, or SCP from the CLI. When each one wins, plus storage paths and checksum verification.

Steam on Linux: It Actually Works Now

Steam crossed 5% Linux usage in March 2026. Proton runs most Windows games without touching a config file. Here's the setup that makes Linux gaming not suck.

De-Googling: Self-Hosted Replacements for Google Apps

Google Drive, Gmail, Photos, Calendar, Maps, Analytics — all replaceable with self-hosted alternatives that don't report your life back to Mountain View.

Running Gemma 4 Locally with Ollama

Google's Gemma 4 is the best open model they've shipped yet. Here's how to pull it, run it, and actually use it for real work with Ollama on your own hardware.

Grafana Dashboard Variables: One Dashboard for All

Stop maintaining 50 identical dashboards. Grafana variables let you build one dashboard that adapts to any data source, environment, or metric.

LLM Backends: vLLM vs llama.cpp vs Ollama

vLLM, llama.cpp, and Ollama all run local LLMs — compare throughput, memory use, GPU support, and which fits your hardware.

The Zero-Trust Home Lab

Apply zero-trust principles to your home lab — network segmentation, VLANs, identity-aware proxies, and Tailscale as the glue.