How I turned a laptop in Texas and an ARM server in Arizona into a single Kubernetes cluster — joined over Tailscale, running a multi-architecture workload that survives a node going dark. A step-by-step build guide, plus the moment I realized my monitoring couldn't tell me when my home lost internet, and how I fixed it.
How I brought my hybrid cloud homelab under Terraform management — 13 Cloudflare DNS records, an Oracle Cloud instance, remote state in AWS S3, and a GitHub Actions pipeline with secretless OIDC authentication. No more clicking around in dashboards.
Learn how to build a professional, multi-stage DevSecOps pipeline for your portfolio site using GitHub Actions. This guide covers parallel security gates with Gitleaks and CodeQL, containerized Hugo builds, Lighthouse performance audits, and secretless OIDC deployments — no stored tokens.
Learn how to build a secure, globally-accessible homelab using a Cloudflare Tunnel. This guide covers implementing a Zero Trust security model to protect your services and eliminate the need for open router ports.
A step-by-step guide to making your homelab self-maintaining. Learn to automate backups to Google Drive with rclone, manage container updates with Watchtower, and send proactive alerts to Discord using Prometheus and Alertmanager.
Learn to build a high-availability, ad-blocking DNS network with AdGuard Home. This step-by-step guide covers deploying on a homelab server, a free Oracle Cloud VM, and using Docker macvlan for ultimate redundancy.
Elevate your homelab with a professional management and monitoring stack. This guide details how to deploy Nginx Proxy Manager, Prometheus, Grafana, and a Homer dashboard using Docker.
Kickstart your homelab by turning an old laptop into a secure server. This guide details the process of installing Debian, performing initial hardening, and setting up Docker and Docker Compose for a solid foundation.
How I built a Python automation that reads Docker container logs, classifies severity, and sends critical events to a self-hosted DeepSeek-R1 model for natural-language summarization — with alerts delivered to Discord every 15 minutes.
Enjoy a faster, ad-free internet everywhere. This 2025 guide details how to build a free, private DNS server with AdGuard Home on an AWS EC2 instance, complete with SSL encryption and automated renewal.
Get universal ad-blocking on all your devices. This guide shows you how to easily set up a private AdGuard Home DNS server on a Linode cloud instance for enhanced security and privacy on the go.
Dive into local AI! This guide shows you how to easily run the powerful DeepSeek-R1 model on Ubuntu using Ollama and Docker, complete with all the necessary commands for setup and execution.