Tag: open source

runc, crun, and youki all run your containers, but they differ wildly in startup speed, language, and cgroups v2 support. Here's which to pick.

Two years after HashiCorp's BUSL switch and IBM's acquisition, OpenTofu is the mature open-source Terraform fork. Here's the honest state of play.

Comparing context-mode, code-review-graph, token-savior, and claude-context, MCP tools that stop AI coding agents from reading your whole codebase blind.

Self-host Jitsi Meet as your private Zoom alternative: encrypted video calls, no SaaS bill. Here's how to deploy it with Docker without it falling over.

Three Matrix server implementations, Python's Synapse, Go's Dendrite, Rust's Conduit. Which one runs your federated chat without eating your homelab alive?

Two FreeBSD firewall distros, one bitter fork. pfSense vs OPNsense in 2026, which one to pick for your home lab, and why the licensing drama still matters.

ModSecurity 3 is end-of-life and Coraza is the open-source successor, Go-native, faster, and friendlier. Here's the migration story and what actually changes.

Appwrite is an open-source Firebase alternative you can self-host, databases, auth, storage, and functions without vendor lock-in.

BookStack uses a strict book/chapter hierarchy; Wiki.js is a linked web of pages. Both run in Docker with LDAP/SSO, pick the right one for your homelab.

LLaMA, Mistral, Falcon, GPT, the LLM landscape is crowded. Compare model families, sizes, licensing, and what each is actually good for.

Self-host Nextcloud in Docker with persistent storage and a reverse proxy, your own Google Drive without the Google.

LiteLLM proxies every LLM, local or cloud, behind one OpenAI-compatible endpoint. Pair it with vLLM for GPU-backed serving and ditch the SDK sprawl.