Unleashing the Beast
Retiring my ageing WatchGuard M200, I swap in the UniFi UDM Beast — a hardware tour, first iperf and WAN tests, the BGP/FRR setup, and the homelab services I’m consolidating onto it.
Automated VCF 9 Offline Depot
One Bash script turns a fresh Ubuntu VM into a VCF 9 Offline Depot: Traefik, Nginx, basic auth, and Let’s Encrypt wildcard certs via Cloudflare DNS.
- Artificial Intelligence | Automation | Docker | Homelab | NVIDIA | Traefik | VMware
My Self-Hosted AI Stack: Infrastructure Deep Dive (Part 2)
Part 2 of my self-hosted AI stack series. I cover container resource sizing, dual-network isolation via Traefik and Cloudflare Tunnels, and every database powering the stack — PostgreSQL, ClickHouse, Redis, Qdrant, MinIO, MongoDB, SQLite, Prometheus, and Jaeger — plus the backup strategy for each.
- Artificial Intelligence | Automation | Docker | Homelab | NVIDIA | Traefik | VMware
My Self-Hosted AI Stack: Architecture Overview (Part 1)
A walkthrough of my self-hosted AI stack: Ollama, Open WebUI, ComfyUI, Whishper, n8n, Qdrant, SearxNG, and a full observability layer — all running on my own hardware with Docker Compose.
- Ansible | Artificial Intelligence | Containers | Devops | Homelab | NVIDIA | Traefik | VMware
Automating the Deployment of my Homelab AI Infrastructure
Learn how to use Ansible to configure an Ubuntu VM for use with NVIDIA based AI workloads in vSphere
Managing my Homelab with SemaphoreUI
An intro on how I use SemaphoreUI to manage my Homelab
Warp – The intelligent terminal
How Warp is helping me run my homelab.
Self Hosting AI Stack using vSphere, Docker and NVIDIA GPU
Artificial intelligence is all the rage at the moment, It’s getting included in every product announcement from pretty much every vendor under the sun.
Can you really squeeze 96TB in 1U ?
Yes, that’s a clickbait title. But technically it’s possible if I dropped all drive redundancy… I recently saw an advert for a server that was just too good to be true.
New Homelab Nodes: SuperMicro BigTwin for VMware & Nutanix
I recently decided to update some of my homelab hosts and I managed to do this at very little cost by offloading 2 of my Supermicro e200’s to fellow vExpert Paul .
Configure DHCP Option 43 for UniFi devices to enable remote adoption across subnets
How to configure DHCP Option 43 for UniFi devices
Nvidia Tesla P4 vGPU Setup in VMware Homelab: Full Guide
Card Stats Install steps VM Provisioning Folding@Home A little while ago I decided to play with vGPU in my homelab.
