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Problem with home labbing

April 11, 2026 Leave a comment

I have a Docker box with Portainer where you can have containers running different apps. And that is the problem. What do I put on. Pi-Hole was a fail. But what do I put on it: Immich, Jellyfin, Bitwarden or something that runs video game roms? When I first decided to this I was worried that I would be in this predicament. I have a NAS box for years and it works great storing my videos, music, pictures, documents and software. Plus do I want to give it access to the outside with a VPN or reverse proxy. I will keep at it and hope to find some that satisfy my needs.

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Homelabbing update

April 7, 2026 Leave a comment

Thought I forgot what I set the admin password for my docker box, so I wiped it and started over. Only to find out after I installed Ubuntu server that it was in my password manager. Oh well, live and learn. I have Docker back up and Portainer installed.

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Docker and Portainer – Home Labbing part 5

March 12, 2026

I am making progress on my Docker box. I was struggling with the Command Line Interface trying to get containers created and running. I wanted to have a Graphical User Interface and I found an app provides that and makes it much easier with Portainer.

I want to add more apps and I may want to have it be accessible to the outside that is safe. I have been looking into some ideas like Tailscale or a reverse proxy through a service like CloudFlare. I will keep you posted of my progress.

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Headaches of tech

March 10, 2026

I built a box with docker on it and I am having headaches on trying to learn it. I plan on getting some info with YouTube videos.

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My Rack (Home Lab part 3)

March 8, 2026

Bought a metal wire shelf so I can put my PCs for my home labbing project.

With my NAS box I added a Docker box and looking to gets some apps running on it.

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Update on my home labbing project

March 6, 2026

I have talked before on my home labbing project. I am starting out but I have a NAS box I built with OpenMediaVault. It has one SSD for the operating system and two traditional HDD. This is where I keep backups of my pictures, documents, videos, music and software downloads.

Now I am looking into getting a computer that I can put Docker containers to run apps on. Apps I am thinking of running is Jellyfin (videos), Immich (photos), RetroRom (video game roms), and much more. Planning to install Ubuntu Server as the operating system. Of the two PC the bigger one on the right is for that. The one on the left doesn’t have RAM or storage.

You might be wondering where I get some of these PC. I work it IT so where I work was getting rid of PC in the picture labelled future projects. As for the NAS box I built that with parts I bought online and assembled them. I will keep you posted on the project.

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Home Labbing

March 3, 2026

I work in IT and was looking on doing home labbing. Home labbing is a way to build your own server with VMs or Docker containers to run OS or Apps. I have started years ago making my own NAS box with OpenMediaVault. I use it to store my media files like my ripped CDs, DVDs, and Blu-Rays as well as my documents, music, pictures and software. I want to expand to other services like a PiHole or home automation.

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