Home Lab

Migrating this blog from a self-hosted Ghost instance to a new CDN that also builds your site – for free.

It was time for me to pack up my home stack and look for a free (even if temporary) - cloud hosting for it until we go through an actual home move as well.

The final post in the series describes the various Swarm stacks I now have in GitHub, and explains the workflows around them.

Create and maintain DNS records on Cloudflare, secure the communication to the origin servers using certificates from Let’s Encrypt, and how to make this painless and fully automated.

Having looked at the configuration and setup of the services in the Home Lab, it’s time to talk about how we can monitor them, and manage their logs.

Let me explain the configuration method I use for my services and HTTP endpoints. Spoiler: it’s Docker and it’s automated.

This third post in the series explains how I extended my stack to multiple servers with Docker Swarm.

In the second post of the series I dive into the details of what is involved setting up for an ever-growing number of applications on a handful of physical servers on my Home Lab.

This post is the first in a series explaining the setup I use to run my websites and their related services at home on cheap hardware using containers.