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Migrating Five Homelab Sites to Git-Linked Komodo Stacks
How I moved five self-hosted websites off manual docker compose and deploy.sh scripts onto Komodo-managed Stacks that pull from GitHub and rebuild on deploy.
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Thoughts on homelab infrastructure, self-hosting, system administration, and automation.
•5 min read
Locking Down 19 Wide-Open Container Ports Across the Homelab
Every Docker host in my homelab had published container ports bound to the whole LAN with no firewall at all. Here's how I found it and fixed it with iptables DOCKER-USER rules.
•5 min read
Building a Private Chat Assistant with Open WebUI, Qdrant, and Ollama
How I stood up a fully self-hosted AI chat stack with retrieval over my own homelab documentation, and the gotchas that came with wiring RAG together on a single-GPU box.
•6 min read
Segmenting a Flat Homelab Network, One Phase at a Time
Rolling out VLAN and firewall zone segmentation across a previously flat homelab network, plus the wireless side effect that took a night of live troubleshooting to actually root-cause.
•7 min read
Zabbix PSK Encryption: Why Ansible Was Breaking It on Every Run
Ansible's password lookup plugin was silently regenerating Zabbix PSK keys every time Semaphore ran the playbook, causing agents to lose encrypted connectivity. Here is the root cause and the fix.
•6 min read
Fixing LXC Network Disconnects After Proxmox Apt Upgrades
Proxmox apt upgrades restart the networking service, detaching LXC veth interfaces from vmbr0. Here is the root cause and the permanent if-up.d hook fix.
•7 min read
Controlling Your Homelab with Claude Code and MCP Servers
How I wired up Claude Code to my homelab using Model Context Protocol servers for Proxmox, Zabbix, Semaphore, and UniFi - natural language infrastructure management that actually works.
•7 min read
AI-Powered Infrastructure Monitoring with n8n, Ollama, and Zabbix
How I built a workflow that uses a local LLM to analyze Zabbix alerts and send intelligent Telegram notifications - no cloud APIs, no subscription fees.
•8 min read
GPU Passthrough in Proxmox LXC Containers: Plex and Ollama
How I configured NVIDIA GPU passthrough for Plex hardware transcoding and Ollama LLM inference in privileged Proxmox LXC containers, including driver gotchas and VRAM limitations.
•7 min read
Monitoring Everything: Zabbix 7 in a Homelab
A deep dive into monitoring 18 hosts with Zabbix 7 - from PSK-encrypted agents and custom UniFi monitoring to Grafana dashboards and maintenance windows.
•7 min read
Exposing Homelab Services Securely with Cloudflare Tunnel
Learn how to expose self-hosted services to the internet without opening firewall ports, using Cloudflare Tunnel for enhanced security and DDoS protection.
•7 min read
Building My Homelab: From Zero to 20+ Self-Hosted Services
A comprehensive journey through building a production-grade homelab infrastructure with Proxmox, Docker, and enterprise-grade monitoring.
•7 min read
Automating Proxmox VM Lifecycle with Ansible and Semaphore
How I use Semaphore as a web UI for Ansible to automate VM creation, onboarding, system configuration, and rolling updates across my Proxmox homelab cluster.