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I Gave AI Control of My Docker Home Lab With Komodo MCP / Virtualization Howto

Posted on 18/09/2026 by Cappu

I installed a Docker MCP server with Komodo to let AI inspect, troubleshoot, and manage containers, stacks, and Docker hosts across my home lab.

Source: I Gave AI Control of My Docker Home Lab With Komodo MCP – Virtualization Howto

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I Added Break-Glass Accounts Before My Home Lab Locked Me Out / Virtualization Howto

Posted on 18/09/2026 by Cappu

Learn why I added break-glass accounts to my home lab, how they work with Authentik, and how they prevent SSO from blocking recovery during an outage.

Source: I Added Break-Glass Accounts Before My Home Lab Locked Me Out – Virtualization Howto

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I Don’t Trust a Home Lab Service Until It Passes These 7 Tests / Virtualization Howto

Posted on 18/09/2026 by Cappu

I use these 7 home lab reliability tests to check failover, monitoring, redundancy, Internet dependencies, recovery, and documentation before I trust a service.

Source: I Don’t Trust a Home Lab Service Until It Passes These 7 Tests – Virtualization Howto

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I Stopped Manually Updating My Docker Container Stacks. I Use This Instead / Virtualization Howto

Posted on 18/09/2026 by Cappu

I stopped manually updating Docker container stacks and started using Komodo to centralize Compose deployments, monitor updates, and automate redeployments.

Source: I Stopped Manually Updating My Docker Container Stacks. I Use This Instead – Virtualization Howto

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If I Had 2 Hours for My Home Lab This Weekend, I’d Do These 7 Things / Virtualization Howto

Posted on 18/09/2026 by Cappu

Use these 7 home lab maintenance tasks to make the most of a 2 hour weekend maintenance window to catch issues before downtime

Source: If I Had 2 Hours for My Home Lab This Weekend, I’d Do These 7 Things – Virtualization Howto

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I Turned My Proxmox Server Into a NAS Without Installing TrueNAS / Virtualization Howto

Posted on 18/09/2026 by Cappu

I turned my Proxmox server into a NAS without installing TrueNAS using ANAS for ZFS, SMB, NFS, iSCSI, snapshots, replication, and PBS backups.

Source: I Turned My Proxmox Server Into a NAS Without Installing TrueNAS – Virtualization Howto

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I Changed How I Do GPU Passthrough in Proxmox After Finding This Feature / Virtualization Howto

Posted on 18/09/2026 by Cappu

Learn how Proxmox Resource Mappings replace hard-coded PCI addresses with logical device mappings for GPUs, NICs, HBAs, and other passthrough hardware across cluster nodes.

Source: I Changed How I Do GPU Passthrough in Proxmox After Finding This Feature – Virtualization Howto

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Minisforum MS-01 Workstation SE Revealed / YouTube NASCompares

Posted on 08/09/2026 by Cappu

Source: Minisforum MS-01 Workstation SE Revealed – YouTube

Categories: Hersteller, HomeLab, Info

My Daily Tech Stack: Apps and Tools I Actually Use – YouTube Christian Lempa

Posted on 08/09/2026 by Cappu

Source: My Daily Tech Stack: Apps and Tools I Actually Use – YouTube

Categories: HomeLab, Info, Tools und Werkzeuge

Update Proxmox Datacenter Manager First / Repositories + Full UI Tour / YouTube syncbricks

Posted on 08/09/2026 by Cappu

Source: Update Proxmox Datacenter Manager First // Repositories + Full UI Tour – YouTube

Categories: Info, Proxmox

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