Zigbee2MQTT vs ZHA
Two paths to running Zigbee in Home Assistant, Zigbee2MQTT for power-user flexibility, ZHA for plug-and-play. Coordinator hardware, range, and the migration myth.
Tag: self-hosting
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Home Assistant on Proxmox
Running Home Assistant OS as a Proxmox VM beats Docker for full Add-ons, USB passthrough, and Supervisor features. Setup, USB sticks, and zero-headache backups.
Jitsi Meet Self-Hosted
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.
Matrix: Synapse vs Dendrite vs Conduit
Three Matrix server implementations, Python's Synapse, Go's Dendrite, Rust's Conduit. Which one runs your federated chat without eating your homelab alive?
SigNoz vs Uptrace Self-Hosted Observability
Two OpenTelemetry-first observability platforms backed by ClickHouse. Here's how SigNoz and Uptrace compare for self-hosted homelab and small-team use.
Longhorn vs Rook-Ceph
Two ways to give your K8s cluster persistent block storage, Longhorn for simplicity, Rook-Ceph for scale. Real homelab tradeoffs, not vendor marketing slides.
Velero: K8s Backup and DR
Your cluster will fail. Velero captures everything, manifests, CRDs, persistent volumes, and lets you replay it on a fresh cluster. Setup, gotchas, real DR plans.
Claude Code in a Homelab Workflow
Claude Code puts an agentic AI assistant in your terminal for real homelab work, compose files, bash, Ansible, systemd. The honest take on cost and data.
cert-manager: ACME at Scale
cert-manager makes Let's Encrypt automatic on Kubernetes, once. Then you scale, hit DNS-01 quirks, wildcard limits, and rate-limit walls. Here's the full survival guide.
Rootless Docker: Tips, Gotchas & Fixes
Rootless Docker tuning deep-dive: network drivers, env vars, port drivers, cgroup delegation, and real troubleshooting, anchored to Docker Engine 29.x.
Dead Container Took Down Prod
A real postmortem: how a forgotten survey-tool container, an uncapped Docker log driver, and rootless networking combined to kill prod for a Monday morning.
Mikrotik RouterOS for Home Lab
Mikrotik routers cost $50, run a real OS, and humiliate prosumer gear. RouterOS basics, VLANs, firewalling, and why your homelab probably needs one of these.